Astronomers have uncovered an unexpectedly ordered structure inside Pa 30, the only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way, revealing chains of nearly uniform gas knots surrounding a ...

Pa 30’s apparent streaks are chains of enormous gas knots, while its surviving star shows little sideways recoil from the ...

Astronomers captured the clearest view yet of Pa 30, the likely remains of a stellar explosion witnessed nearly 850 years ago ...

Stars once thought to provide evidence of hypernovae may instead owe their unusual chemistry to ordinary supernovae that ...

Over the decades leading up to the explosion of the rare and luminous Type Ia supernova SN 2022erq, the mass-loss rate of its ...

The only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way has an unexpectedly intricate structure: chains of gas knots ...

Learn about the remnant of a historic supernova observed around 850 years ago and the zombie star that has survived at its center.

A spectacular supernova, SN 2026aaiv, has erupted in the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, located 45 million light-years away in the Pegasus constellation and visible from both hemispheres.

Evidence for hypernovae, theorized to be the most powerful explosions in the universe, has been disputed in two papers by ...

Observations from the Dark Energy Camera show the evolution of a supernova, including a bright blue source of light before the explosion (top box), the initial blast ...