the James Webb Space Telescope's powerful infrared eyes watched as light from a centuries-old supernova illuminated interstellar material, warming it and causing it to glow. "This is going to ...

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence that a neutron star formed in the remnants of the most-studied supernova in history, helping to confirm a decades-old theory.

examined iron isotopes to identify a 2.5 million-year-old supernova. The researchers connected this stellar explosion to a surge of radiation that pummeled Earth around the same time, and they ...