NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.
NASA has detected a precursor or progenitor to a supernova for the first time – and it's all thanks to old photos. Researchers have now been able to study some of a supernova's progression by ...
NASA has released an unprecedented time-lapse video showing the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, a cosmic relic of a massive stellar explosion. Captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory over ...
NASA just released a new image from its Webb Space Telescope of renowned supernova SN 1987A, located 168,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was first discovered in February 1987, ...
The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...