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Astronomers accidentally discover 2 supernovas that exploded from a single star systemAstronomers have identified a supernova remnant beside the well-known Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443), and evidence suggests both are the wreckage of two stars that once orbited each other before exploding separately.
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Hubble images taken 25 years apart show big changes in the iconic Crab Nebula — Space photo of the weekAstronomers reveal new insight into an iconic supernova remnant's evolution, structure and pulsar-driven growth over 25 years.
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Scientists witness birth of one of the universe's strongest magnets for the first time, thanks to a general relativity 'magic trick'Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.
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Scientists may have seen a star collapse directly into a black hole without exploding firstA new study looked at how a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy disappeared due to the formation of a black hole
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'Behemoth star,' previously thought to be dying, is 'rising from the ashes' like a phoenixA 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.
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Astronomers spot 'time-warped' supernovas whose light both has and hasn't reached EarthWill 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'.
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James Webb telescope discovers earliest Type II supernova in the known universeAn 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.
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First-ever 'superkilonova' double star explosion puzzles astronomersA double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova."
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James Webb telescope may have spotted the earliest supernova in the universeAstronomers 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.
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