More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...
Yet spotting a disappearing pinprick in a crowded field of light is far from easy, meaning direct observations ... With no sign of a supernova throughout this period, the researchers concluded ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding ...
Around 168,000 years ago, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded in a spectacular Type II supernova. The light from this event reached Earth in early 1987, and the explosion was bright ...