One of the brightest stars in the night sky is living on borrowed time, at least by cosmic reckoning. Betelgeuse, the ruddy ...
One of the brightest stars in the night sky is living on borrowed time, and its eventual death promises to be one of the great spectacles of the cosmos. When the aging red supergiant that marks the ...
When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright, powerful explosion called a supernova and scatters ...
Astronomers watch star explode like never before – and find an entirely new way for them to die - Observations from across ...
Astronomers capture a rare shock breakout as a massive Wolf-Rayet star explodes into a broad-lined Type Ic supernova, revealing new clues about stellar deaths, black hole formation, and why some blast ...
Betelgeuse has always been something of a mystery. Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky, marking the right ...
Astronomers have linked an X-ray flash discovered by the Einstein Probe to a known type of supernova with unusual features ...
A collapsing star drives a shock wave out through its own body. The wave reaches the surface and breaks through, dumping ...
Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...
These images show the evolution of supernova SN 2026gzf, which was first detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026. Images taken on 25 March and 3 April 2026 show the supern ...