Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive ...
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 ...
Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...
The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...
Scientists now have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a ...
When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...
"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris flying back at the shooter. Similar things occur in real astronomical phenomena ...
Officials say garbage and debris on the sidewalk, and a couple of cars were on fire at the location before a large explosion occurred.