A team of astronomers recently had to act fast to obtain a never-before-seen image of a dying star. The supernova explosion SN 2024ggi was first detected on April 10, 2024. The scientist leading the ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Scientists have captured the moment the shockwave of a supernova explosion breaks out through the surface of a doomed star for the first time, revealing what appears to be a surprisingly symmetrical ...