Tag Archives: Supernova
NASA Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Supernova 1987a
On February 23, 1987, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in the universe within the region of Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of Milky Way. Astronomers followed this...
Simon Kinberg to Write and Direct the X-Men: Supernova Movie
Fox has received a wide playing field with the success of its standalone character movies. With Deadpool and Wolverine mounting up to major bucks at the box office, many believe that the studios...
Newborn Supernova Observed Just After Stellar Explosion
When massive star ends, explosions happen that’s named as Supernova. The experts say that massive starts are also very bright when their life ends as they are during their life.There is no witness of...
Black Hole Swallowing a Star Mistaken for Brightest Supernova Explosion
An extraordinary display of light in a distant galaxy that had been previously dubbed brightest supernova ever turned out to be a giant black hole tearing apart a massive star.The luminous event,...
Giant black hole could be to blame for brightest supernova ever
3.8 billion years ago, a star in the southern sky exploded and released 570 billion times more light than our sun and more than twice as much as any other recorded supernova. That star, dubbed ASASSN-15lh, is the brightest supernovae ever observed an...
Low-Mass Supernova Led to the Birth of our Solar System: Study
About 4.6 million years ago, a collapsing cloud of gas and dust formed our solar system. The cloud was collapsed possibly due to the shockwave of a nearby exploding star or supernova. As gravity...
Fossil evidence of supernovae found on the sea floor
Astrophysicist Shawn Bishop of the Technical University in Munich looked for evidence of supernovae in an unlikely place: on the sea floor. Now, according to a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bishop confirmed that there is a...
Astronomers witnessed a white dwarf going nova
When a star explodes, astronomers usually scramble to point their telescopes in its direction, hoping to catch a glimpse of the aftermath. While this is a fine way for learning about the results of a nova or supernova, much less is known about the ev...
A supernova once blasted the moon with radioactive iron
Stars are gigantic hydrogen bombs that normally produce helium with little fuss. When the hydrogen is all gone, however, they implode, causing exotic new elements to be formed by the massive gravitational pressure. If a star is just the right size (e...