The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

Some of the earliest images ever taken in the wake of massive star’s death give astronomers important clues about what triggers a supernova.

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by ...

Scientists have observed the early stages of a star's violent death – a supernova – for the first time. The shape of these ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope showed the explosive death of a star just as the ...

Scientists have observed for first time the very early stages of a supernova — death of a star — with a massive star ...

For the first time, scientists determined the shape of a supernova's shock front as it burst through the surface of a dying ...

Astronomers have captured a first-of-its-kind image of a massive dying star.

Scientists now have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova, with a massive star exploding in a ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of a supernova at its earliest stage.