Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the opportunity arises to capture a cosmic event almost in real-time, as if we were ...
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...
A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
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 ...