Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Astronomers tracked a star that slowly faded instead of exploding. The quiet disappearance may reveal a hidden way black holes are born.

Astronomers have captured the first radio waves ever detected from a rare class of exploding star, a discovery that has given them an unprecedented look into the final years of a massive star before ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured radio signals from a rare exploding star, exposing what happened in the years ...

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Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no diamond in the sky. That looks like a supernova. As much as we love to blow ...

A massive star in a nearby galaxy that reached the end of its life appears to have vanished rather than blown up, forming a black hole in what astronomers think is a rare way. The most common black ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star ...