Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...
Observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope showed the explosive death of a star just as the ...
Despite the massive number of stars in the sky, spotting one in the throes of a supernova is still an incredibly rare event. Now, astronomers have captured a red supergiant before, during and after a ...
The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...
Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by ...
The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.