Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that the recently discovered cloud of hydrogen and helium plunging toward the galactic center represents the shredded…
Alex Parker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Institute for Theory and Computation, incorporated sound and audio to astronomical images to create…
A recently published study details how scientists used light from an exploding star as a probe to study the gas conditions in the space between…
Using data from the Palomar Transient Factory Real-Time Detection Pipeline, astronomers were able to verify and document the first-ever direct observations of a Type 1a…
Using sodium gas signatures, which have been recognized as being associated with type Ia supernovae, a team of scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science…
After 8 and a half days of observations of the spiral galaxy M83, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays from the remains of…
Scientists at the Caltech believe a computer simulation will help researchers interpret the information that detectors collect about neutrinos and gravitational waves from supernovae and…
Using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astrophysicists will scan debris from supernovas to better understand how they work and use that information to figure out…
NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, providing researchers with sharp images of black…
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain why some supernova explosions are more powerful than others, supporting the idea that some of…
A newly published study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics details two models supporting the origin of Type Ia supernovae, finding that both the…
While studying SN 2011fe and using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, researchers were able to provide new insights into the origins of…
Above is the image of Eta Carinae taken by NASA’s Hubble Telescope. The field of view is approximately 30 arcseconds across and consists of ultraviolet…
One hundred and seventy years ago, astronomers thought that a series of explosions on the surface of η Carinae were the beginning of a supernova,…
Recent gamma-ray observations of Tycho’s supernova remnant (SN 1572) by the space-based Fermi-Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System…
When massive stars accumulate more iron that they can hold, they explode in what is called a core-collapse supernova, also known as Type II supernovae….
Scientists are using powerful lasers to mimic the effects of supernovae, which are helping to reveal how the magnetic fields of galaxies may have been…
Supernova Primo originated 9 billion years ago, when its progenitor star exploded. The light was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope by a three-year project…