NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified the red supergiant star that exploded as supernova SN 2025pht in galaxy NGC 1637, marking the first time JWST has detected a supernova progenitor star.
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe galaxy Messier 83 (M83) spotted the unexpected explosive aftermath of a supernova. Typically, the aftermath of a stellar explosion is a ...
About 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, there exists WOH G64, a gigantic star 2,000 times the size of our Sun. Recent observations with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...