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Astronomers Just Found 72 Stellar Explosions, but Don’t Know What’s Causing Them
Using data from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova program, a team of astronomers recently found 72 supernovae, the largest number…
Astronomers Find The Most Distant Supernova Ever: 10.5 Billion Light-Years Away
Astronomers with the Dark Energy Survey have discovered the most distant and ancient supernova yet: a rare Super Luminous Supernova…
Gravitational Astronomy? How Detecting Gravitational Waves Changes Everything
We’ve now had multiple detections of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new field: gravitational astronomy. We talk about the…
Star Should Have Gone Supernova, But it Imploded Into a Black Hole Instead
While viewing a massive star in the Fireworks Galaxy that was expected to go supernova, a team of astrophysicists instead…
It’s Been Three Years Since We’ve Had a Supernova This Close
Earlier this month, amateur astronomer Patrick Wiggins spotted a type II supernova, which happened to be the closest to our…
New Estimate Puts the Supernova Killzone Within 50 Light-Years of Earth
A new paper on supernovae and the effects on Earth increases the so-called "Supernova Kill-Zone" to 50 light years.
Do Stars Move? Tracking Their Movements Across the Sky
The stars look static in the sky, but are they moving? How fast, and how do we know? What events…
An Aging Pulsar has Captured a new Companion, and it’s Spinning back up Again
An international team of scientists, relying on data from XMM-Newton, have discovered a slowly-rotating pulsar that is slowly speeding back…
What Are Fast Radio Bursts?
Here's a big mystery in astronomy: fast radio bursts. Brief shrieks of radio waves coming from space. What are they?…
A Star Going Supernova In Slow Motion Discovered
In the course of observing an explosion in a distant galaxy, a team of researchers noticed something unprecedented - a…