The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

Some of the earliest images ever taken in the wake of massive star’s death give astronomers important clues about what triggers a supernova.

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured the moment a massive star exploded, observing the blast just as it burst ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

Astronomers were able to capture the shape of a supernova for the first time in the earliest hours after the outbreak, ...

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For the first time, scientists determined the shape of a supernova's shock front as it burst through the surface of a dying ...

When this shock reaches the surface, it releases an enormous burst of energy. The star brightens dramatically, becoming visible as a supernova. For a short period, astronomers can study the initial ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to observe the moment a shock wave is released from an exploding star prepared to die, revealing an unexpected astonishing explosion. It is usually difficu ...