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Supernovae

August 2023

  • sarafina el-badry nance poses in a nasa jumpsuit

    Astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance: ‘I’ll probably always live with impostor syndrome’

    The Egyptian-American scientist on falling in love with the stars, the problems faced by women of colour in her field, and her preventive double mastectomy

May 2022

  • A composite image of the Tycho supernova remnant, made using infrared and X-ray observations from Nasa’s Spitzer telescope and Chandra space observatory, and the Calar Alto observatory, Spain.

    Catch a failing star: the tense wait for a supernova

    Astronomers are hoping to witness the self-destruction of a star, which could help shed light on the creation of matter in our galaxy

August 2021

  • Stock illustration of a supernova

    Champagne moment as supernova captured in detail for the first time

    Researchers record the earliest moments of a supernova as a shockwave blasts its way through a star

January 2020

  • Starwatch 13 January 2020 Betelgeuse

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Betelgeuse – a fading star heading for an explosive end?

    The variable red giant in Orion is one of the brightest stars in the sky. But it is at its dimmest for over a century. This may – or may not – indicate that it is about to blow

May 2019

  • Neutrino burst, conceptual image. Computer artwork representing a burst of neutrinos released when a star collapses. Neutrinos are elementary particles with no charge and little or no mass.

    Exploding stars led to humans walking on two legs, radical study suggests

    Scientists say surge of radiation led to lightning causing forest fires, making adaptation vital

November 2017

  • This is an artist's impression of a supernova explosion.

    'Zombie star' amazes astronomers by surviving multiple supernovae

    Star has exploded in ‘fatal’ supernovae multiple times since 1954 – and is the first star astronomers have witnessed doing so

February 2017

  • A distant star in spiral galaxy named NGC7610 detonated in 2013 with a massive supernova. This artist’s impression shows another supernova known as SN 2006gy.

    Massive supernova visible millions of light years from Earth

    California observatory spots dying star 10,000 times brighter than the sun before explosion in a spiral galaxy 160m light years from constellation of Pegasus

April 2016

  • Mass density distribution of 60Fe associated with the Local (foreground) and Loop I superbubbles at 2.2 Myr before present. The whitish red region near Earth (not drawn to scale) in the simulation represents material that has been expelled by recent supernova explosions.

    Radioactive debris from supernova blasts discovered in ocean crust

    Two massive explosions, 2.2 and 1.5 million years ago, could have been as close as 300 light years distant, and would have been visible from Earth

March 2016

  • Animation of the flash of an exploding star's shockwave for story to run on 22 March 2016

    Supernova shockwave seen with visible light for first time

    International team of astronomers witness the elusive shock breakout after sifting through three years of data collected by Nasa’s Kepler space telescope

February 2014

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Supernova in Ursa Major

    Alan Pickup on the discovery of one of the closest and brightest supernovae for several years

February 2012

  • Month in Space : Pillars of Creation in the Eagle nebula

    A month in space
    A supernova blast wave and the dunes of Mars – in pictures

    A Month in Space: Featuring the remains of a supernova explosion, rippling Martian sand dunes, the Eagle Nebula and an interesting view of Belgium

December 2011

  • Supernova in Pinwheel galaxy

    Supernova explosion gives a glimpse of how ingredients for life are created

    Scientists capture SN2011fe supernova in Pinwheel galaxy as it spews heavy elements necessary for life into space

September 2011

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: The October night sky

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: The truth about the supernova and the comet

  • In praise of ...
    In praise of … supernovae

  • The Pinwheel galaxy pictured a few days ago as a supernova (PTF11kly) heads towards peak brightness.

    Supernova explosion will be visible from UK

May 2011

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 24 May 1955: Discovery of a new supernova

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 24 May 1955: There are so many stars in the sky that the discovery of yet another may not seem of very great importance. Yet the one whose discovery Professor Hans Haffner, of Hamburg University, announced yesterday is no ordinary star

January 2011

  • Month in Space : The Veil Nebula

    A month in space
    Geriatric stars and a champagne supernova

    Including a crowd of geriatric stars, a supernova bubble, a Martian crater and the moon as you've never seen it before

June 2010

  • Technology blog
    The Technology newsbucket: data explosion, HTML5 primer, open data orders and more

    Plus: will Betelgeuse go supernova?, reverse postcode lookups, what your email domain reveals, iPad sells 2m (that's $1bn) and more

May 2008

  • Supernova

    Milky Way spawns a new supernova

    Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy. Created by the death of a star, a new supernova appears in a spiral galaxy only about once a century
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