Astronomers have captured a first-of-its-kind image of a massive dying star.

The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...

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Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive ...

It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder.

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The ...

A new state-of-the-art telescope has snapped its first impressive images of the southern sky over the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest addition to the ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...