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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…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope identified the source of a super bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst:…
This two-part illustration represents supernova GRB 250314A as it was exploding and three months after that, when Webb observed it.…
This image of supernova GRB 250314A, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), shows compass arrows,…
