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NASA’s Hubble studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies and found that much of the oxygen they expected to see is missing.
Through studying the early universe, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has brought us closer to understanding one of the most…
This Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista called N44.
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…
![The images indicate that the bubble of gas that makes up the supernova remnant appears different in various types of light. Chandra reveals the hottest gas [colored blue and colored green], which radiates in X-rays.](http://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA06908/PIA06908~small.jpg)
