Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope showed the explosive death of a star just as the ...

Astronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...

Astronomers have captured a first-of-its-kind image of a massive dying star.

Scientists have observed for first time the very early stages of a supernova — death of a star — with a massive star ...

The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...

When this shock reaches the surface, it releases an enormous burst of energy. The star brightens dramatically, becoming visible as a supernova. For a short period, astronomers can study the initial ...

For the first time, scientists determined the shape of a supernova's shock front as it burst through the surface of a dying ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

On April 10, 2024, astronomers began the fast-paced mission to capture supernova SN 2024ggi. Study coauthor Yi Yang of Tsinghua University in China initially learned about its sighting shortly after ...

Betelgeuse made everybody think it was going to explode in a spectacular supernova. It turns out the star just belched and shrouded itself in dust.