Scientists have wondered for a long time just what causes a supernova. A new observation shows a massive star exploding, leading to the birth of a supernova. Scientists now believe they can study the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. This article is more than 4 years old. The Carina Nebula, with Eta ...

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For the first time a star has been observed in real-time as it goes supernova -- a mind bogglingly powerful explosion as the star ends its life, the resulting cosmic eruption briefly outshining an ...

Two Princeton researchers, Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger, have become the first humans in recorded history to witness the explosion of a supernova in real time. Soderberg, who is a postdoctoral ...

Although most stellar explosions are fairly symmetrical, the supernova remnant W49B has an odd shape that could have resulted from the interaction of its magnetic field with its parent star. Although ...

A star located 60 million light years away went supernova last year, and astronomers managed to capture all stages of the stellar explosion using telescopes both on the ground and in space. The doomed ...

I know what developer Primal and publisher Namco-Bandai are saying their new game Supernova is — a MOBA in the vein of League of Legends and, to a lesser degree, Dota 2, but with an real-time strategy ...

HOLLYWOOD -- Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a couple in crisis in the new drama, "Supernova." In the film, they've been partners for 20 years...which is about how long Colin and Stanley have been ...

Cambridge, MA (December 17, 2020)--Artificial intelligence is classifying real supernova explosions without the traditional use of spectra, thanks to a team of astronomers at the Center for ...

Scientists have trained machine learning software to classify supernovae without the traditional use of spectra. The project -- the first to use real supernovae data to inform its artificial ...