It is the first supernova visible to the naked eye since Kepler's supernova in 1604, making it an incredibly rare astrophysical event that has played an outsized role in shaping our understanding of ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A has ...

The new Webb image shows us, for the first time, two faint crescent-shaped structures on either side of the keyhole. Scientists said the crescents are part of the outer layers of gas disgorged in the ...

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Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be the full story when it comes to the ring of hydrogen clumps around ...