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Stars which are 8 times or more massive than our Sun end their lives in a most spectacular way; they go supernova. A...
This image represents a view of NASA Kepler supernova remnant taken in X-rays, visible light, and infrared...
This image from an animation shows a gigantic star exploding in a "core collapse" supernova. As atoms fuse inside...
This Spitzer false-color image is a composite of data from the 24 micron channel of Spitzer's multiband imaging...
NASA's three Great Observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the SpitzerSpace Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray...
This frame from an animation shows a kind of stellar explosion called a Fast-Evolving Luminous Transient. In this...
This frame from an animation shows a gigantic star exploding in a "core collapse" supernova. As atoms fuse inside...
Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array,...
Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. The titanic...
The images indicate that the bubble of gas that makes up the supernova remnant appears different in various types of...
Suzaku Finds "Fossil" Fireballs from Supernovae In a supernova remnant known as the Jellyfish Nebula,...
Supernova Supernovae can occur one of two ways. The first occurs when a white dwarf—the vestigial ember of a dead...
This frame from an animation shows the merger of two white dwarfs. A white dwarf is an extremely dense remnant of a...
The Cassiopeia A supernova first flash of radiation makes six clumps of dust circled in annotated version unusually...
This is an artist's impression of supernova 1993J, an exploding star in the galaxy M81 whose light reached us 21...
Image release September 2, 2010 ABOUT THIS IMAGE: This image shows the entire region around supernova 1987A. The...
NASA image release June 10, 2011 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are witnessing the unprecedented...
NASA image release January 11, 2012 Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding...
Supernovas are often thought of as the tremendous explosions that mark the ends of massive stars' lives. While this...
NASA's Fermi Closes on Source of Cosmic Rays New images from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope show where...
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found three confirmed exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar...
These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red...
Release date Dec. 30, 2009 In the supernova remnant W49B, Suzaku found another fossil fireball. It detected X-rays...
This artist's animation shows a typical young galaxy, teeming with hot, newborn stars and exploding supernovas. The...