There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University astronomer Danny Milisavljevic, who led the team behind the JWST images.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...

One of the youngest supernova remnants in our galaxy, Cassiopeia A glows with the energy of a star’s final breath.

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants ...

"When a star dies, it can explode in a supernova, causing a strong shock wave and forming an interstellar object called a supernova remnant," wrote an international team of scientists in a paper ...