The 1181 supernova was no ordinary stellar explosion. Scientists believe the event resulted from a thermonuclear blast that occurred on a white dwarf, or a dense dead star. It’s possible that ...

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." ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

After the Big Bang, around 2 billion years, this blast which rocked the cosmos marked the death of just such a monster star, reported Space.com. This supernova, which was detected as part of the ...

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 ...