Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The…
In 2010, an exceptionally luminous supernova exploded in a small galaxy about 150 million light-years away called UGC 5189A. The…
Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering…
An international team of researchers was able to accurately measure the effect that a supernova shock wave had on the…
In a wave of media releases, the latest studies performed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are lighting up the…