New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise to mysterious "low-field magnetars." ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University astronomer Danny Milisavljevic, who led the team behind the JWST images.

This supernova is the most fleeting and temporary ... than a year apart showed SN 2017GAX beginning to fade into a smaller ...

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants ...