This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy ... supernova. This type of supernova requires a remarkable object called a white dwarf, the crystallized core of a ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

The Crab Nebula is a six-light-year-wide remnant of a star’s supernova explosion, capturing the intense energy released during the explosion . Astronomers used data from Hubble to ‘rewind time ...

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 ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

The dazzling spiral galaxy in this Hubble Space Telescope image is UGC 5460, located about 60 million light-years away in the ...

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 ... from the explosion of the core of a dead star. Supernovae of this type help ...

Located around 120 million light-years from the Earth, the star can be found in the NGC 5731 galaxy. Recently ... before it collapses into a type II supernova. This type of supernova is ...

When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

WOH G64 is shedding its outer layers, a dramatic process leading to its inevitable transformation into a colossal supernova ... such detail of a star beyond our galaxy is extraordinary ...