A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the progenitor star of supernova 2025pht, a stellar explosion that occurred 40 million years ago in the galaxy NGC 1637. This discovery, detailed in a ...
What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...
Astronomers have discovered what kind of stellar body is left after two stars collide and merge to generate an explosion called a "luminous red nova." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the ...
Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a brilliant beacon of light. That light traveled across the cosmos, reaching Earth June 29, ...