The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an original star that caused a supernova for the first time. - NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Charles Kilpatrick / Aswin Suresh Astronomers say they've ...
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Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...
One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...
NASA and The Hubble Space Telescope has noticed the disappearance of the massive star N6946‑BH1 after it flared to a million ...
Discovery of SN 2025wny: A Strongly Graviatationally Lensed Supernova at z=2.01. Joel Johansson et al (2025). Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University An international team of astronomers led by Oskar ...
A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical tool. The object, known as SN 2025wny, appears not once but four times in ...
For decades, astronomers have searched the skies for a missing population of doomed stars — the massive red supergiants that theory predicts should end their lives in powerful stellar explosions, but ...
Astronomers say they've captured the clearest look yet of a star on the brink of supernova. An international team used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to backtrack and find the original star that ...