M83 is located about 15 million light-years away from Earth and is forming stars at a high rate. Using 14 years of Chandra data of the galaxy (2000 to 2014), the team caught some surprising variations ...
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The brightest burst of gamma rays ever recorded was caused by the collapse and explosion of a massive star—a supernova. That’s according to a paper published last week in Nature Astronomy that used ...
Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from a time when our universe was just a small fraction of its current ...
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New type of supernova ‘looks like nothing anyone has ever seen before,’ astronomer says
Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study detailing the ...
Axions are the most likely candidate for enigmatic dark matter that dominates the universe. Astrophysicists are searching for evidence of high-mass axions produced during supernovae. Scientists ...
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Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova
Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might ...
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