The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed ...

Learn about a bright blob in the central region of the Milky Way, illuminating what may be a remnant of a massive star that ...

M83 is located about 15 million light-years away from Earth and is forming stars at a high rate. Using 14 years of Chandra ...

Astronomers have discovered a superluminous supernova drawing energy from a surrounding glowing structure, challenging current understanding of extreme events.

NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected ...

A set of supernovae are behaving in weird ways, more than a decade’s worth of data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

A star appears to have exploded near the centre of our galaxy at least 1,700 years ago. The light from that event is long ...

Astronomers working with two of the world’s most powerful X-ray telescopes have identified what appears to be a young ...

An international team of astronomers believes it has found evidence of one of the closest supernova ever to have occured near the center of the galaxy.

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar ...

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