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Pan-STARRS Discovers two Super Supernovae
[/caption] Supernovae are the brightest phenomenon in the current universe. As massive stars die as supernovae, they briefly outshine the…
Burned Out Stars Do A Deadly Last Dance
[/caption] "Well, I don't know, but I've been told... You never slow down, you never grow old." Well, Tom Petty…
Where Did Early Cosmic Dust Come From? New Research Says Supernovae
[/caption] From a JPL Press Release: New observations from the infrared Herschel Space Observatory reveal that an exploding star expelled…
Dark Energy… And Zombie Stars!
[/caption] It's called a Type Ia supernovae and it shines with the luminosity of a billion suns. For all intents…
Young Supernova Has Bright Future
[/caption] Way back in 1987 we received a present from our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was an…
New Class of Stellar Explosion Sings the Blues
[/caption] A team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered a new, ultra-bright class of…
Supernova Discovered in M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy
A new supernova (exploding star) has been discovered in the famous Whirlpool Galaxy, M51. M51, The Whirlpool galaxy is a…
Carina Nebula: Pumping More Than Just Iron
[/caption] We are all just star stuff... But when it comes to the elements produced by a star, it just…
What Triggers a Type Ia Supernova? Chandra Finds New Evidence
[/caption] What makes a star go boom? A new look at Tycho’s supernova remnant by the Chandra X-ray telescope has…
Finding the Failed Supernovae
[/caption] When high mass stars end their lives, they explode in monumental supernovae. But, when the most massive of these…