What If on MSN
If a supernova exploded near Earth, could we survive it?
As much as we love to blow stuff up here on Earth, no bombs or pyrotechnics could compare to the incredible force of nature’s ...
The star that formed the Jellyfish nebula may have had a partner star that exploded 100,000 years earlier, according to ...
An international team of astronomers has performed follow-up observations of a peculiar Type Ia supernova designated SN ...
The Jellyfish Nebula, one of the best-studied supernova remnants in our galaxy, may have been hiding a sibling this whole ...
Imagine if Star Wars' Tatooine twin suns went supernova. Scientists may have just found that in our universe.
Astronomy on MSN
JWST studies a supernova near the dawn of time
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a massive star collapsed, triggering a supernova explosion so bright it could be ...
By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova ...
When some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a particular class of cosmic ...
Astronomers have made a surprising discovery inside the remains of a giant star that exploded about 1,600 years ago. They ...
Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...
Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars. Scientists analyzing Antarctic ice ...
Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...
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