Astronomers Witness Star Exploding at the Edge of the Universe

A s the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peer into the origins of our universe, it’s delivering a steady stream ...
Maui Now

WATCH: ‘Superkilonova’; a star so nice, it explodes twice

A superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, ...
ScienceAlert on MSN

First-ever superkilonova may have been spotted in bizarre star explosion

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, Astronomers May Have Witnessed a Rare Double Explosion of a Star Called a Superkilonova

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...
Futurism on MSN

Astronomers Appear to Have Caught a Star Splitting In Half, With Catastrophic Results

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...
Reuters

For first time, scientists see the very early stages of a supernova

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious.
Astronomy

If hypervelocity stars are kicked out of binary systems by supernovae, how did they survive the blast?

Hypervelocity stars (HVS) are celestial bodies moving at speeds sufficient to escape the Milky Way's gravitational pull, with a primary proposed origin involving binary star interactions with the ...
Space.com

Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by black holes shredding stars, scientists say. 'It's definitely not just an exploding star.'

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...