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Astronomers have been able to catch the earliest phases of supernova explosions with one of the most powerful observatories ...

Mysterious nickel gas detected in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing unexpected chemistry at enormous distances from the ...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured an unprecedented early snapshot of supernova SN 2024ggi, revealing an elongated, ...

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

Chris Ashall, an assistant astronomer at the UH Mānoa Institute for Astronomy, was part of the global team that zeroed in on the stellar explosion known as SN 2024ggi. The supernova was first spotted ...

The explosive death of a star - a supernova - is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks ...

When a star explodes, it expands at high speed. What a supernova looks like immediately after its onset was therefore unknown ...

ESO's original GRAVITY interferometer had operated since 2016, incorporating a cryogenically cooled Beam Combining Instrument ...

For better images, the European Southern Observatory can combine four optical telescopes. Now, thanks to laser technology, a ...

A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...

This year, on 10 November, it is World Science Day for Peace and Development. SALT has had considerable social benefits for ...