NASA has released an unprecedented time-lapse video showing the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, a cosmic relic of a ...

The space agency pieced together the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant from the data of NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely ...

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over ...

Situated around 17,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy, the supernova remnant is close enough for NASA’s ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." When you purchase through links on ...

Supernova 1987A, the nearest observed supernova in modern history, continues to offer profound insights into the life‐cycle of massive stars. Its distinctive features, including a prominent equatorial ...

These Chandra images reveal how stars end their life in majesty Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The supernova that resulted in the creation of SNR 0509-67.5 occurred nearly 400 years ago for ...

When scientists aimed the European Space Agency's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, at two mysterious lights on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, they discovered an unexpected source: two ...

To date, around 300 supernova remnants have been identified in the Milky Way. However, scientists estimate that the galaxy ...

Kyoto, Japan -- "Why are we here?" is humanity's most fundamental and persistent question. Tracing the origins of the elements is a direct attempt to answer this at its deepest level. We know many ...