All Entries Tagged With: "supernova"
Inside-out exploding star
Why did a star turn itself inside out when it blasted itself to bits?
Ancient supernova seen in a new light
Stellar explosion seen almost 2,000 years ago was the result of an overloaded star.
Aussie shares Nobel Prize for physics
Discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe leads to top physics prize.
Fried Egg nebula home to hypergiant
Rare class of ‘yellow hypergiant’ star lives at the centre of this weird nebula.
Galaxy caught blowing bubbles
Hubble spots huge glowing bubbles of hot gas in a strange dwarf galaxy.
Take a tour of the Crab Nebula
Vast supernova remnant harbours a magnetised neutron star, a pulsar, that emits ‘superflares’.
Supernovae make raw material for planets
Famous stellar explosion produced enough material to make 200,000 new worlds.
Happy birthday, Crab Nebula!
Famous supernova went off almost 1,000 years ago, leaving a glowing cloud in its wake
Meet the Meathook Galaxy
Strangely lopsided galaxy has bent spiral arms and glowing clouds of hydrogen gas.
Close encounter of the galactic kind
Galactic tug-of-war is leaving its mark on two galaxies.
