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Hubble spots a supernova’s surviving companion
17 years after the initial supernova, astronomers have photographed its companion star for the first time ever
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Famous exploded star revealed with incredible clarity
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has imaged the intricate and energetic features within the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
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Why are neutron stars so heavy?
We investigate why this is the case
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Astronomers discover star that won’t die
Supernovae traditionally occur once at the end of a star’s life, but this particular star has exhibited multiple supernovae over the last three years
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Hubble captures 30th anniversary image of famous supernova
SN 1987A was the closest observed exploding star to Earth since the invention of the telescope
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Tail of stray black hole found hiding in the Milky Way
The new finding marks the beginning of the search for quiet black holes
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Spinning black hole caught gulping down star
The mystery extraordinarily brilliant point of light seen in a distant galaxy has been solved
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Low-mass supernova could have triggered birth of Solar System
About 4.6 billion years ago, a cloud of gas and dust that eventually formed our solar neighborhood was disturbed
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X-ray telescope witnesses result of violent crash between heavyweight objects
Astronomers now have the best evidence to date that the energetic events known as gamma-ray bursts produce a very narrow beam or jet
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Most luminous, energetic pair of stars found outside Milky Way
The dual-star system produces a cyclic flood of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light
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Mysterious multiple explosions of supernova decoded by Hubble
In the mid-1800s, astronomers surveying the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere noticed something strange about the star Eta Carinae
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Supernova of 386 CE was too faint to have been witnessed
A new look at the debris from an exploded star in our galaxy has astronomers re-examining when it actually happened
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Hisses from space reveal star’s past life
Astronomers have managed to peer back in time, millions of years before a famous explosion
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Hubble shows the Crab Nebula as never seen before in new image
New shot reveals the beating heart of one of the most visually appealing, and most studied, supernova remnants
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Universe is expanding faster than previously thought
Astronomers have obtained the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding at the present time
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Could an exploding star kill all life on Earth?
We find out if a supernova could kick-start a mass extinction
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Space telescope captures expanding debris from stellar explosion
Combining observations, astronomers have been able to learn new things about Tycho’s supernova remnant and the explosion that made it
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Trigger for Milky Way’s most recent stellar explosion identified
Scientists have determined the likely cause for the most recent supernova in our galaxy