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A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar…
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the…
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova.…
For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity…
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in…
Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a brilliant beacon…
The main image at left shows a combined Webb and Hubble view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637. Panels at right…
Image of galaxy NGC 1637 captured by Hubble’s WFC3 and Webb’s NIRCam, with compass arrows, scale bar, and color key…
