This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the mesmerizing galaxy LEDA 22057, home to a recent supernova explosion, SN 2024PI. This ...

Astronomers have just made a bold prediction—that an exploding star dubbed “Supernova Requiem” will ... Universe’s expansion rate. Once in a “Blue Moon?” Try twice!

The explosion was of a huge star, 20 times the mass of our Sun, a so-called blue supergiant. Its life ended in spectacular style in a process called a supernova, prosaically called SN 1987A ...

A giant ‘hiccuping’ star in its final stages before exploding has been spotted by a team of international astronomers. The ...

Explore the dynamic life of the spiral galaxy NGC 337 as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, featuring a mix of old and ...

A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding supergiant star—the result of its core collapsing under its own gravity ...

It's the astronomical equivalent of a horror film adversary: a star that just wouldn't stay dead. When most stars go supernova, they die in a single blast, but astronomers have found a star that ...

Astronomers studying the aftermath of a supernova explosion have located the original star, a celestial body that should have ...

Within seconds, the star is violently blown apart, hurling stellar debris into space at speeds thousands of times faster than the most powerful rocket ever built. This is a supernova explosion.

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...