A supernova event recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 is at the heart of a first-of-its-kind 3D animated map, unveiling new secrets of a flowering “zombie star.” Supernova Sn 1181 is ...

(CNN) — For six months in 1181, a dying star left a mark in the night sky. The striking object appeared as bright as Saturn in the vicinity of the constellation Cassiopeia, and historical chronicles ...

Webb has only been operating for three years, so this is the first time one of its previous images has overlapped with the site of a new supernova. "For multiple decades, we have been trying to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

Images taken by JWST reveal the star that became SN2025pht before it exploded, providing our best view of a red supergiant proto-supernova. The cloud of dust hiding the star from our eyes may answer ...

The protocol used to find these young supernova explosions could be used on data from the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The early stages of a supernova explosion are revelatory in what they can ...

"Even the quietest and seemingly empty regions of the galaxy can harbor extreme processes." Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary celestial system containing a runaway pulsar fleeing the scene ...