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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have observed for the first time the very early stages of a supernova — the death of a star — with a massive star exploding in a distinctive olive-like shape. They used the European ...

(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 ...

Learn more about the supernova, which is more than a billion years older than the previous record-holder.

Type Ia supernovae result from a white dwarf exceeding 1.4 solar masses after accreting hydrogen from a companion star, leading to a thermonuclear explosion. The Sirius system contains a white dwarf ...