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Researchers use spectropolarimetry to understand what shape supernovae take when matter explodes from the surface, but it has ...

Astronomers have managed an unprecedented look at the early stage of a supernova, a massive star's explosion and death, ...

Astronomers mapped supernova SN 2024ggi for the first time, revealing an elongated shockwave, challenging old stellar ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by the VLT, the star, 15 ti ...

Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star's surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the process and producing more light than the entire galaxy for an instant.

A stream of high-energy particles from a distant supernova explosion may have caused a packed passenger jet to suddenly lose ...