NASA has released an unprecedented time-lapse video showing the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, a cosmic relic of a ...
The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.
It's the last clearly observed supernova in the Milky Way, Gassel said.
Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.
Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...
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Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.
In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...
A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over ...
NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveals a 25-year time-lapse of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant. Glowing debris expands at different ...
The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...
Astronomers have spotted AT2025ulz, a rare dual explosion — a supernova and a kilonova — that may be the first-ever observed ...