This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. Astronomers studying the night sky from the Southern Hemisphere have uncovered a supernova — the ...

Recent studies have hinted that at least some Type Ia supernovae could be best explained by a double explosion. And now astronomers have captured a new image proving this hunch was right! We spoke ...

A white dwarf star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded twice in a double-detonation supernova. Credit: ESO / Priyam Das et al. / Hubble / K. Noll et al. Astronomers have finally caught a dying star ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite false-color view of the Jellyfish Nebula and its surroundings in several different types of light shows structures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This multiwavelength scene shows the Jellyfish Nebula supernova remnant (right), the interstellar cloud it's interacting with, and ...

When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavier elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of ...

Astronomers have spotted a star around 160,000 light years away that appears to have exploded twice in the first ever evidence of a "double supernova". A supernova is a powerful stellar explosion that ...

New research helps in understanding the evolution and final stages of massive stars, the role of binary interactions, and the mechanisms behind mass loss, which ultimately affect the properties of the ...

・Astronomers found evidence that the Jellyfish Nebula, or IC 443, and the fainter remnant G189.6+3.3 may have formed from two massive stars that once belonged to the same binary system. ・Data from ...