The Perseus Cluster is a massive galaxy cluster located in the constellation Perseus. It is one of the largest structures in ...

When a star in the nearby galaxy NGC 2146 exploded in late 2024, it barely registered by supernova standards. The blast, ...

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In 2018, astronomers spotted a cosmic explosion unlike anything in their catalogs. Dubbed AT2018cow, or simply “the Cow,” it flared to extraordinary brightness in just a few days, burned an intense ...

WASHINGTON — A supernova, the explosive death of a star, is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron star or black hole. But ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

A distant supernova, SN 2025mkn, became visible from nine billion light years away after a galaxy’s gravity bent and ...

Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed the Lijiang 2.4-m telescope to perform optical ...

Once a low-mass Sun-like star, SDSS J0715-7334 has reached the end of its main-sequence lifespan and is now a red giant ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...