16-01-15 A team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Benjamin Shappee, Nidia Morrell, and Ian Thompson, has discovered the most-luminous supernova ever observed, called ASAS-SN-15lh. Their findings are published in Science. Supernovae are violent stellar exp...

14-01-08 Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in the early Universe. Direct evidence of a supernova's dust-making capabilities, however, has been slim and cannot account for the co...

13-04-07 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago. SN Wilson b...

13-02-18 New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted（歪曲的） supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter is...

12-11-15 The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova（超新星） remnant W44, which combines far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories. W44, located around 10,0...

10-12-15 The delicate shell, photographed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, appears to float serenely（安详地，沉着地） in the depths of space, but this apparent calm hides an inner turmoil（混乱，骚动） . The gaseous envelope（气囊，气膜） formed as t...

10-12-03 A team of physicists from the University of Toronto and Rutgers University have mimicked the explosion of a supernova（超新星） in miniature（小型，小规模） . A supernova is an exploding star. In a certain type of supernova, the detonation（爆炸） s...

09-12-18 At a very early age, children learn how to classify objects according to their shape. Now, new research suggests studying the shape of the aftermath余波，后果 of supernovas超新星 may allow astronomers天文学家 to do the same. A new study of images fr...