Stars have layers like onions, according to theory. The layers are made of different elements, progressing from light to ...

Astronomers don’t often get to witness a gigantic star getting undressed. But that is exactly what they witnessed with SN2021yfj, a 2.2-billion-light-year-away stellar explosion whose naked look has ...

A completely new supernova variant finally shows a glimpse of a star’s innermost “guts” moments before its destruction.

Scientists have seen the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare glimpse into stellar evolution and what happens during a supernova ...

In 1987, earthbound observers saw a star explode in the nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomers eagerly studied this supernova–the closest seen in the past 300 years–and ...