As soon as a star is born, it starts fighting a battle with gravity. A burning star constantly releases enough energy to counteract gravity’s inward pressure. But once its fuel runs out, gravity ...

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants ...

Some 350 years after a supernova, its shockwave reaches interstellar space and causes clouds of gas and dust to glow. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Jacob Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) Scientists ...

This blast, which rocked the cosmos around 2 billion years after the Big Bang, marked the death of just such a monster star. This supernova, detected as part of the JWST Advanced Deep ...

Marvel Rivals continues to dominate headlines. The video game features popular characters from the original Marvel comics ...

When the supernova shock wave hits that dust, it releases a flood of X-rays, followed by a blast of cosmic rays centuries later. It's a nasty one-two punch: The X-rays can travel over 150 light ...

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Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...

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Dr. Jeonghee Rho studies supernovae and their remnants to investigate the origin of dust and molecules in the early and local Universe. Supernovae play a key role in the chemical and dust budget of ...

This supernova, detected as part of the JWST Advanced ... In particular, the high-energy blast seems to have been excessively violent. "The first stars were considerably different than the stars ...