Supernova, Earth and extinction event

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It may have been a nearby star exploding.
Magnetars are a class of neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. These incredibly dense objects are central in the landscape of extreme phenomena such as hypernovae, fast ...
A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins.
Notably, these two types of stars have different origins: a neutron star is formed when a massive star undergoes a supernova explosion ... fuel and sheds its outer layers. Researchers at Monash ...
Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...
This type of supernova occurs when the star nearing the end of its life is at least eight times as massive as the sun. The ...
The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...