WASHINGTON — The most recent supernova in our galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio ...

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In the colossal Pinwheel galaxy, 25 million light-years away, a star has just exploded and is even visible through small telescopes. The supernova-hunting astronomer Koichi Itagaki discovered the ...

Dusty debris from the destructive death of a giant star glows fiery orange and red as it collides with interstellar dust. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently captured this stunningly ...

The Meathook Galaxy, or NGC 2442, has a dramatically lopsided shape. One spiral arm is tightly folded in on itself and host to a recent supernova, while the other, dotted with recent star formation, ...

Eight years ago, an astronomical observatory located high on a hill overlooking a region famous for a popular cheese, peered into the constellation Pisces only to discover proof of a star going ...

A brand new telescope is coming online, but it doesn't look all that new to most. The Expanded Very Large Array, or EVLA, uses the same Y-shaped array of radio dishes that fans of "Contact" are ...

The most recent supernova in our Galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA), has ...