A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers ...

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star dies.

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Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, using a NASA telescope to watch the superheated gas race through space and slam into its surroundings. The new study using ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...