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'Behemoth star,' previously thought to be dying, is 'rising from the ashes' like a phoenix
A new study suggests that the red supergiant WOH G64, also known as the "behemoth star," has not transitioned into a yellow hypergiant as previous research suggested. This means it is now unlikely to imminently explode in a colossal supernova.
Astronomers spot 'time-warped' supernovas whose light both has and hasn't reached Earth
Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them to 'reappear'.
James Webb telescope discovers earliest Type II supernova in the known universe
An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
First-ever 'superkilonova' double star explosion puzzles astronomers
A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova."
James Webb telescope may have spotted the earliest supernova in the universe
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big Bang.
Scientists map the shape of a supernova for the first time ever: Space photo of the week
Astronomers using data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the initial "breakout" phase of a supernova is elongated, not perfectly spherical.
Hidden 'doomed' star revealed by James Webb Space Telescope could solve decades-old mystery
Researchers have identified a massive red supergiant on the brink of supernova in images from the James Webb Space Telescope, shedding light on a decades-old star mystery.
Scientists find 'something extraordinary' in famous supernova's troubled heart
Scientists using the Chandra X-ray telescope have uncovered new details about the famous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.
Spotify-like AI helps discover never-before-seen supernova as greedy star attempts to eat a black hole
With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as it was trying to gobble down a black hole.
NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week
Scientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.
