Nearby supernova factory ramps up The new Chandra survey revealed the presence of six possible neutron stars, providing strong evidence that the supernova activity is ramping up in the Carina Nebula.

The Nearby Supernova Factory, an international collaboration of astronomers and astrophysicists, has announced that SNIFS, the Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph, achieved "first light" during ...

The search for the universe's dark matter could end tomorrow—given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that ...

Sometimes, though, there’s an upsurge in neutrinos — for example, from a nearby supernova. The closest observed supernova in over 400 years was SN 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud , a ...

Don’t Panic—At Least, Not about a Nearby Supernova. An exploding star is a catastrophe on a cosmic scale, but here on Earth we’re safe from such astral disasters—for now.

The nearby supernova SN 2023ixf (bluish light at lower left), as seen nestled in the spiral arms of the Pinwheel Galaxy, in an image from the Gemini North telescope.

According to a Keele University statement, these two mass-extinction events (known as the late Devonian and Ordovician extinction events) were a result of massive nearby supernova explosions. Pexels ...

Our infant solar system therefore probably survived a supernova blastwave, according to the researchers, led by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan astrophysicist Doris Arzoumanian. The ...

More information: Caitlyn Nojiri et al, Life in the Bubble: How a nearby supernova left ephemeral footprints on the cosmic-ray spectrum and indelible imprints on life, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550 ...

A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help astronomers better ...