A team of astronomers led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Howie Marion has detected a flash of light from the companion to an exploding star. This is the first time astronomers have witnessed ...

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Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. An explosion seen in the cosmos in the early 1600s may actually be an ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the universe. Dr. Mathew Smith and Dr. Georgios Dimitriadis from Lancaster ...

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...

The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They’re bright enough to see across large ...

BERKELEY, CA — A group of scientists affiliated with the SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have found startling evidence that there is more than one kind of Type Ia supernova, a class of exploding stars ...

The shockwave has traveled half a light-year.

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