"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

In space, they’re thought to originate from a star exploding as a supernova or from two dense ... was disturbed for several hours by the blast. Enough energy arrived at Earth to activate lightni ...

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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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 ...