An international team of astronomers from Europe, Israel and the United States has succeeded in shedding light on the origin of Type la supernovae – powerful nuclear explosions in deep space that ...
Stars don’t die softly. When it’s finally time for those massive balls of energy and heat to expire, they go out in a stupendous explosion. But just as there are different kinds of stars, there are ...
The ESO's Very Large Telescope points at the exact position of the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5, or "the expanding shells of a star that detonated twice," located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...