Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star ...

A naked-eye supernova is one of the rarest sky events humans can witness — a star suddenly exploding so brightly it becomes ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

The discovery image that the Kilonova Seekers volunteers first saw of GOTO0650 when it went into outburst. The science, reference, and difference images are shown: the "science" image taken on the ...

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