A team of astronomers recently had to act fast to obtain a never-before-seen image of a dying star. The supernova explosion SN 2024ggi was first detected on April 10, 2024. The scientist leading the ...
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...
SN 2024aecx and the host galaxy NGC 3521. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.19831 Astronomers from the Yunnan University in China and other institutions have carried out photometric and ...
This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers ...