Astronomers just spotted the largest cosmic explosion ever seen
Astronomers recently observed the largest cosmic explosion ever seen, believed to be caused by supermassive black hole devouring a large cloud of gas.
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Gravitational lens gives us a third estimate of the Universe’s expansion
Read more: Gravitational lens gives us a third estimate of the Universe’s expansionLensed images of a supernova appear at different times.
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Ancient Gas Clouds Spotted by Astronomers May Be Remnants of First Stars
Read more: Ancient Gas Clouds Spotted by Astronomers May Be Remnants of First StarsAstronomers operating the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope think they’ve found three gas clouds that formed in the aftermath of the very first stars, when the Big Bang was still in the rear-view mirror.Read more…
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See How Different This Supernova Looks to Webb Versus Hubble
Read more: See How Different This Supernova Looks to Webb Versus HubbleAbout 340 years ago, a brilliant light appeared in Earth’s night sky—a distant star had died in an enormous explosion. That light, which we now know is from the supernova Cassiopeia A, has just been captured in never-before-seen detail by the Webb Spac…
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Astronomers Stunned by Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Recorded
Read more: Astronomers Stunned by Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever RecordedOn October 9, 2022, a gamma ray burst brighter than any before seen swept across Earth and space-based detectors. A team scrambled to take follow-up observations at radio wavelengths, and they confirmed that the burst was about 70 times brighter than a…
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Newest Webb Image Is a Stunning View of a Star’s Penultimate Stage
Read more: Newest Webb Image Is a Stunning View of a Star’s Penultimate StageThe Webb Space Telescope has produced a stupendous view of a Wolf-Rayet star, an extraordinarily bright object in the sky that (you may want to sit down) will soon die.Read more…
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Cixin Liu’s Novel Supernova Era Will Explode Into Theaters
Read more: Cixin Liu’s Novel Supernova Era Will Explode Into TheatersThe film adaptation of Cixin Liu’s Hugo Award-winning, Nebula Award-nominated, best-selling science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem may be stuck in a peculiar development hell, although fans can hopefully console themselves with Netflix’s TV versi…
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NASA Will Launch Israel’s First Space Telescope, Set to View Fleeting Events Like Supernovae
Read more: NASA Will Launch Israel’s First Space Telescope, Set to View Fleeting Events Like SupernovaeIsrael’s first space telescope is set to reach geostationary orbit in 2026, and NASA is going to get it there, the agency announced Tuesday. The mission is called the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT), and it will scrutinize short-du…
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Astronomers Find Rare Star System That Will Trigger a Kilonova
Read more: Astronomers Find Rare Star System That Will Trigger a KilonovaThe universe has no shortage of oddities, and researchers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab have observed another one in the form of a particular binary star system. The system, called CPD-29 2176, will eventually trigger a kilonova, a celes…
