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Astronomers Find Dozens of Massive Stars Fleeing the Milky Way
The Milky Way can't hold onto all of its stars. Some of them get ejected into intergalactic space and spend…
Astronomers are Hoping to Detect Gravitational Waves Coming from Supernova 1987A
A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star’s life. During the event,…
Searching for the Supernova Neutrino Background to the Universe
It’s a sobering statement that stars like the Sun, more accurately ALL stars will die eventually, yes even the Sun!…
A Machine Learning Algorithm Finds its First Supernova
Plenty of recent mainstream news articles have touted AI's ability to assist in the process of scientific discovery. But most…
Quenched Galaxies in the Early Universe
Recently, much attention has been given to massive, active galaxies discovered by the JWST in the early universe. But in…
Hubble Sees a Mysterious Flash in Between Galaxies
Hubble and other observatories worldwide have witnessed a Luminous Fast Blue Optical event between two galaxies.
A Star Threw Off a Sun’s Worth of Material. And Then it Exploded!
What happens just before a massive star explodes as a supernova? To figure that out, astronomers need to look at…
Astronomers Have Been Watching a Supernova’s Debris Cloud Expand for Decades with Hubble
Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering…
Astronomers Watched a Massive Star Just… Disappear. Now JWST Might Have Some Answers
In 2009, astronomers watched a bizarre mystery unfold. An enormous star, with 25 times the mass of the Sun, faded…
Supernovae Struck the Earth 3 Million and 7 Million Years Ago
A recent study examines how the Earth was hit by blasts from supernovae (plural form of supernova (SN)) that occurred…