Space experts trust that stars need to detonate in a supernova before they fall into black holes. Researchers have detected a monstrous star 22 million light years away, N6946-BH1, that seems to have skirted the supernova step altogether - it lit up marginally and just vanished.
An exploded type la supernova was discovered by volunteers an event by the Australian National University. The said supernova has a distance of 970 million light-years or existed during the time of dinosaurs on Earth.
The latest research in astronomy and physics has found further evidence of supernova explosion is the cause of mass extinction on Earth million of years ago.
Hubble captures a bubble-like structure, Sh2-308, wrapped around EZ Canis Majoris, a star in The Great Dog constellation. This wispy bubble is transitory and will disappear in the violent supernova explosions.
One of the rarest celestial events caught on the telescope. Gravitational lens, created by a perfectly aligned galaxy, magnifies a supernova 5o times to make it visible from earth.
Radio astronomy has greatly helped the scientists analyze the life journey of stars. From their birth to their death, these stars lead astonishing lives.
It’s a tough job sifting through the data and the haze of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, but some astronomers have to do it. The time-consuming job often means having to peer into the center with aid of multiple telescopes, all giving you a different perspective at a different wavelength. It can be job of countless hours, with little to no reward, but when researchers find even cosmic dust, their studies can strike it rich.
While most stars hang out in the Milky Way for millions or even billions of years in orbit of the center of the galaxy, the star known as US 708 is marching to its own drum.