PASADENA, Calif.- An international team of astronomers at the California Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a supernova more ...
In a new study, researchers have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic particles, secretly interact with themselves. One ...
Though we know that massive stars die in violent explosions called supernovae, we know relatively little about how those explosions work. It doesn't help that supernovae are fairly rare, occurring ...
When a star explodes, it sends high-energy particles out in all directions. This burst of energy can travel through space for thousands of light-years, traversing solar systems and even galaxies. The ...
Dr Heloise Stevance and Professor Stephen Smartt with the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), in the Astrophysics Data Lab, University of Oxford. Credit: Caroline Wood. A new ...
Every star’s death is dramatic. Superluminous supernovae take the theatrics to another level. In the early 2000s, scientists first saw these conspicuous cataclysms, which can shine much longer and be ...
[Music] a Supernova one of the most powerful eruptions in the cosmos triggered by the collapse of a massive star how do you go from a violent collapse to an incredibly dramatic explosion this involves ...
In a new study, researchers have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic particles, secretly interact with themselves. In a ...