I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...
Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...
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The result is a rare before-and-after look at a dying star. The supernova, called SN 2025pht, came from a red supergiant, one of the largest types of stars in the universe. It was roughly 40 million ...
It's great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what's known about ...
Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have ...
By combining Webb’s infrared data with older Hubble Space Telescope images, scientists traced the explosion, known as ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Astronomers recorded the longest gamma-ray burst in history, GRB 250702B, that may be a cosmic event completely new to ...
Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing ...