The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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This artist’s conception shows the collision of two neutron stars on Aug. 17. The event was detected in both gravitational waves and, more significantly, light. Jonah B. Kanner / Caltech Mikayla ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...