supernovas

  • A Stellar Explosion Could Be Visible In The Night Sky In 2022

    A Stellar Explosion Could Be Visible In The Night Sky In 2022

    It’s not often that a new body appears in the night sky — aside from meteors and the occasionally comet, things tend to look pretty much the same. Now, astronomers predict that a pair of stars so close they’re basically touching will collide and create a so-called red nova, resulting in a bright explosion visible…


  • All The Supernovas Ever Photographed By NASA

    All The Supernovas Ever Photographed By NASA

    Image Cache: NASA has revealed spectacular, newly reprocessed images of four of the most amazing supernovas ever captured by a human science instrument — the Crab Nebula (top), Tycho, G292.0+1.8, and 3C58 — to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Chandra observatory. I decided to go one step further and collect them all.