Astronomers have witnessed a massive star's explosive death, a supernova, for the first time in its early stages. Observed by the VLT, the star, 15 times the Sun's mass, exploded in an unusual ...
In our galaxy, a supernova explodes about once or twice each century. But historical astronomical records show that the last ...
Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...
Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY It has been considered by some that global cooling in the Plio-Pleistocene might have been due to changes in ocean ...
Artist's impression of a supernova. By ESO/M. Kornmesser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY My hypothesis is that remnants of a supernova – an exploding star – had an impact on the Earth’s past climate, causing ...
Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...
The shape of such explosions has been hard to nail down because of how rapidly they take place, so it took quick action with this supernova. The team thus was able to observe the explosion just 26 ...
(MENAFN- The Conversation) What's the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient environments and fossils for many years, sets ...