The scientists who are hoping for a supernova

Webb finds evidence for a neutron star at heart of young supernova ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed ...

First Observed Nearly a Thousand Years Ago, Scientists Finally ...

Six key features are needed to place an electron-core supernova. The stars should have an enormous mass, such as red giants. The star needs to ...

This Weird Star Survived a Supernova Only to Shine Even More ...

"Nobody was expecting to see a surviving star that was brighter. That was a real puzzle." As unexpected as it was, the observation wasn't ...

Exploring Supernovae Leads To Physics Nobel Prize - NPR

Perlmutter, Schmidt and Adam Riess, who played a crucial role on Schmidt's team, shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for their 1998 discovery ...

Spectroscopy of the supernova H0pe host galaxy at redshift 1.78

Supernova (SN) H0pe was discovered as a new transient in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRCam images of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 taken as part of ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 - Popular information

By establishing the distance to the supernovae and the speed at which they are moving away from us, scientists hoped to reveal our cosmic fate. They ...

What Is a Supernova? - Wonderopolis

Many of the atoms that exist today were originally created inside stars and released into space when the stars became supernovae. In fact, scientists believe ...

A bright future for supernovae - Advanced Science News

Thus, astrophysicists usually have to study the luminous remnants of an already exploded star, called the progenitor. To gain a better ...

Astronomers are relying on amateurs with telescopes to ... - Quartz

Scientists would love to see a star abruptly end its life in a colossal supernova ... hoping to see the one supernova in the universe that ...

UArizona graduate student and team discover most distant ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have discovered about 80 new supernovas. Their findings provide a new window ...

Using supernovae to study neutrinos' strange properties

New study offers hope to long-standing scientific problem. photo:Tatyana Woodall. Tatyana Woodall. Ohio State News.

Are we made of stardust? | Natural History Museum

Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up the human body.

What the next supernova can teach us, and why astronomers hope it ...

What the next supernova can teach us, and why astronomers hope it will come from Betelgeuse ; Source. Science Borealis ; Faculty Member. Dr. Jess McIver ; External ...

This amateur astronomer may be the world's top supernova hunter

Amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki is one of the most prolific supernova hunters of all time · Advertisement · Relevant tags:.

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope: Waiting for a supernova

A team of European astronomers is using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look back in time. They have imaged the spiral galaxy NGC ...

Astronomers discover strange 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' supernova

Stars can die in a few ways, but the most spectacular is as a supernova, an explosion that can outshine even its host galaxy. And while ...

A supernova turns into a black hole for the first time in front of ...

The discovered supernova SN 2022iji in the galaxy NGC 157 may become a key chain between the death of stars and the formation of black ...

Nova: 'New star' will appear in the night sky after stellar explosion

Astronomers are expecting a “new star” to appear in the night sky anytime between now and September in a celestial event that has been years in the making.

Chasing a supernova | Argonne National Laboratory

SULI intern Alec Lancaster spent the summer looking for a specific kind of supernova in the data from the Dark Energy Survey. The goal of the ...

Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Universe

Alexei V. Filippenko discusses supernovae and the accelerating expansion of the universe.