Supernovas might spell the end for the star they happen to, but they aren’t only destructive phenomena. When a star approaches the end of its life and runs out of fuel, it explodes in an enormous ...

Witness WR 124, a rare Wolf-Rayet star 15,000 light-years away, shedding vast material before its explosive end, creating glowing cosmic dust captured beautifully by NASA’s Webb Telescope. The Skull ...

The dying pangs of a massive star may have given rise to the galaxy's most recent black hole and produced the first supernova remnant of its kind ever spotted in the Milky Way. Supernova remnants are ...

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Dementia has always been a rich subject for filmmakers to explore, but it's rare to have two movies in quick succession that brilliantly showcase the heartbreaking realities of living with the ...

The many sides of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Located 10,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Cassiopeia, Cassiopeia A is the remnant of a once massive star that died in a ...

In the February 2013 issue of Astronomy, Francis Reddy described the many ways suns can end their lives in “When stars go bang!” We didn’t have room to fit many of the beautiful supernova remnants ...

Astronomers have peered for the first time into the heart of an exploding star in the final minutes of its existence. The feat by the high-energy X-ray satellite NuSTAR provides details of the physics ...