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The Hubble Space Telescope is a Powerful Science Instrument Despite its Age

This Hubble image shows a supernova named SN 2022aajn in a distant galaxy about 600 million light-years away with the…

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Rubin Will Find Millions of Supernovae

The discovery of a few thousand type 1a supernovae over the last few decades has helped measure the expansion of…

3 weeks ago

Habitable Worlds Could Have Formed Before the First Galaxies

What came first, galaxies or planets? The answer has always been galaxies, but new research is changing that idea. Could…

3 weeks ago

Webb Sees Light Echoes in a Supernova Remnant

Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure their power, their spin,…

3 weeks ago

Zwicky Classifies More Than 10,000 Exploding Stars

Even if you knew nothing about astronomy, you'd understand that exploding stars are forceful and consequential events. How could they…

2 months ago

Do We Really Know What Becomes a Type Ia Supernova?

Type Ia supernovae are crucial to our understanding of cosmology. But we still don't fully understand what causes them.

2 months ago

A Nearby Supernova Could Finally Reveal Dark Matter

Despite 90 years of research, the nature and influence of Dark Matter continue to elude astronomers and cosmologists. First proposed…

3 months ago

The First Close-Up Picture of Star Outside the Milky Way

Like a performer preparing for their big finale, a distant star is shedding its outer layers and preparing to explode…

3 months ago

A Star Disappeared in Andromeda, Replaced by a Black Hole

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The…

3 months ago

Learning More About Supernovae Through Stardust

Dust grains older than the Sun can tell us about how supernovae enriched the cosmos with heavy elements, but the…

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