A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...

Astronomers have spotted signs that Betelgeuse, the closest supergiant star to Earth, could be about to explode as a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has indeed captured a stunning image of two interacting galaxies, NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, resembling a penguin and an egg. WR 124 is a rare and luminous Wolf-Rayet star, ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

Thankfully, there are no such systems within 150 light-years of Earth. But there's this whole other kind of supernova, the Type 1a. These have a completely different mechanism for going boom.

Visible light is not a problem. By far most of the energy emitted by a supernova is in the form of ... if you're standing around on the surface of the Earth, about one cosmic ray passes through ...

“But if a planet — including the Earth — is located too close to this kind of event, this can have devastating effects.” In the study, the researchers provided no evidence that a supernova ...

Its glow will likely be visible during the day ... only a small amount of the radiation released by the supernova will reach Earth. The phenomenon where the effect of a star decreases the further ...

Humanity may be about to experience the first supernova visible to the naked eye in over 400 years ... wars', actual wars and asteroids which were but now aren't a threat to Earth; it would appear one ...