Before that, the last supernova visible to the naked eye was in 1604. Using infrared wavelength and gas data gathered by the telescope, a team of researchers from around the world concluded that a ...

With its ability to detect objects a million times fainter than the dimmest stars visible to the naked eye, it captures nearly every supernova explosion within 1.5 billion light-years of Earth.

The yellow crosses mark previously identified supernova remnants. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy so close to the Milky Way that it is visible to the naked eye from Earth's Southern ...

An international team of astronomers has investigated a newly detected Type II supernova designated SN 2024jlf. The new study, detailed in a paper published Jan. 30 on the arXiv pre-print server ...