Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...
The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...
Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...
In a series of observations that read like science fiction, astronomers now suspect they have watched a star quite literally ...