Astronomers have identified what appears to be a cosmic smoking gun for a historic supernova explosion, a find that may also help with the search for elusive dark energy in the universe. The new ...
When stars die, they go out kicking and screaming. Astronomers capture the early stages of a supernova explosion for the first time. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...
The exploded star Tycho, called the Tycho Supernova. (It's not the star recently observed exploding, but a past supernova event.) Credit: NASA / CXC / RIKEN and GSFC / T. Sato et al. / Optical: DSS ...
The cataclysmic event sent sent particles of gas and dust shooting into space at speeds up to 100 million kilometers per second. The explosion also was annotated by something quite unexpected: Instead ...