The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...

Discover the explosive end of a star's life—supernovas. Learn what causes these cosmic events and their impact with ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope recently released a chilling view of two spiral galaxies, IC ...

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

From celestial fireworks caused by exploding stars to mesmerizing mosaics of distant nebulae, check out these 7 stunning ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK via Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black ...

It is created when heated matter swirls in the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive black hole in NGC 1672. Along with its bright young stars and X-ray core, this image’s highlight is the most ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

In 2009, astronomers found another confirmed failed supernova, a supergiant red star in NGC 6946, the "Fireworks Galaxy," called N6946-BH1. A survey monitoring 27 nearby galaxies indicates that 20%-30 ...

Stars have a life and death-cycle. Those that are about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.