"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...

(CNN) — For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as ...

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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 ...

Astronomers have finally been able to capture the shape of a star explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage, all thanks to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern Observatory. A team ...

Astronomers are finally catching a star in the act of dying, not as a static before-and-after snapshot but as a live, ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing clues of a dramatic cosmic history. The star, which quietly orbits a ...