Through a Gravity Lens: Astronomers Capture Bizarre “Extremely Warped” Supernova
Astronomers have captured a bizarre image of a supernova, a powerful star explosion, with its light so distorted by the gravity of another galaxy that…
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Astronomers “Blown Away” by Weird Two-Faced Star
Unusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other. In a first for white dwarfs, the burnt-out cores…
Quadruple Take: Unlocking Dark Matter Mysteries With Multiply-Imaged Gravitationally Lensed Supernova
Physicists and astronomers have discovered a multiply-imaged lensed Type Ia supernova, “SN Zwicky,” enabling unprecedented study of galaxy properties, gravitational lensing phenomena, dark matter, and…
Einstein’s Theory in Action: Supernova Explosion Revealed by Rare “Cosmic Magnifying Glasses”
Researchers gain insight into how the universe is expanding thanks to gravitational lensing, a natural phenomenon that warps space around galaxies and visually magnifies celestial…
Latest Discoveries From Zwicky Transient Facility, Supernovae, Stars, and More
The results are rolling in from Caltech’s newest state-of-the-art sky-surveying camera, which began operations at the Palomar Observatory in March 2018. Called the Zwicky Transient…
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Takes Its First Image of the Sky
A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image…