Last Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013, 11:36
A new view of a 20,000-year old supernova remnant has provided more clues to the history of this giant cloud that resembles a beloved endangered species, the Florida Manatee.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 10, 2013, 12:55
Astronomers have revealed that a massive star, which they have watched repeatedly mimicking a supernova since 2009, has finally exploded for real.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 20, 2012, 19:16
Researchers from the University of Southampton have called into question a 40-year-old theory explaining the periodic speeding up or ‘glitching’ of pulsars.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 15:34
A swindling star, which that appeared to have exploded earlier this year, may have faked its own death to unite with a secret companion, researchers including one of Indian origin say.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 8, 2012, 19:36
A team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence suggesting that X-ray detectors in space could be the first to witness new supernovae that signal the death of massive stars.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 19:54
Astronomers have pinned down the likely origins of especially bright supernovae that they use as easy-to-spot “mile markers” to measure the expansion and acceleration of the universe.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2012, 18:11
A new image of the supernova remnant called W44 reveals the aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 14:19
The stellar explosions which formed the super-rare and super-luminous supernovae may have occurred at a time when the universe was much younger and probably soon after the Big Bang.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 12:11
Two super-luminous supernovas, 10 to 100 times brighter than others of their type, have been detected in the distant universe.
Last Updated: Friday, October 19, 2012, 19:55
ESA’s Integral space observatory has made the first direct detection of radioactive titanium associated with supernova remnant 1987A.
Last Updated: Friday, September 28, 2012, 14:13
The supernova explosion of the year 1006 – the brightest stellar event ever recorded in history – was probably caused by the merger of two white dwarf stars, scientists have found.
Last Updated: Friday, August 31, 2012, 12:23
An international research team made use of a dying star`s fury to probe a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years distant.
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