To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's destructive capabilities. When the bright star Betelgeuse explodes ...

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When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a “guest star” in the Cassiopeia constellation.

Astronomers’ best view yet of the aftermath of a “guest star” supernova seen in 12th-century China and Japan has revealed one of the strangest objects in the heavens. It consists of hundreds ...

A historical supernova documented by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 has been lost for centuries, until very recently. Yet, the newly found remnant shows some stunning characteristics ...

Scientists take the first close-up picture of a star outside our galaxyFrom Arrival to Signs, flying saucers have been staple ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud. It harbors the "deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud," according to ESA. Credit: ...

A first-of-its-kind, animated map has revealed fresh secrets about a mysterious, flowering "zombie star" lurking in the remnant of a supernova that lit up Earth's skies more than 800 years ago ...

Pauline Black of ska royalty The Selecter performing at the 10th Supernova International Ska Festival in Virginia. (Credit: Heather Augustyn) It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the ...

In the year 1181 CE, the sky exploded. That star was a supernova, the violent eruption as a dead white dwarf star accrued so much mass from a binary companion that it exceeded critical mass and blew ...