This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Like the subject of a previous ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Supernova SN 2023ixf in Messier 101 as captured on May 21, 2023 by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi at ... [+] The Virtual Telescope ...

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

Today, we know them to be not stars being born but stars in their death throes, and we call the event a supernova. (The earliest record of a possible supernova appears in a prehistoric rock ...

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 ...

This is a supernova explosion. Astronomers aim to understand what types of stars produce different kinds of explosions. Do more massive stars result in brighter explosions? What happens if a star ...

Day 7 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a supernova seen thrice. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam viewed the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0, also known as G165.