Betelgeuse is one of the closest stars to Earth, at a distance of only 650 light-years away. This makes Betelgeuse a fan-favorite with professional and amateur astronomers alike. Betelgeuse is a red ...

Do you produce a music podcast? Yet another program about our favorite subject which you were certain would explode like a supernova in the saturated ...

If you hear the word “superstar,” what immediately comes to mind? Perhaps names like Tom Hanks, Taylor Swift or LeBron James? That’s certainly ...

A deep-space photo of the Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini shows a brain-like structure, capturing the supernova remnant IC 443 and surrounding interstellar gas and stars.

New studies reveal how metallicity and stellar evolution determine whether massive stars expand into red supergiants prior to Type II supernova explosions.

For the first time, we have a front-row seat to one of the most violent events in the universe: a supernova. But there’s a ...

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.

An extraordinarily rare, gravitationally lensed supernova may offer a powerful new way to measure the universe’s expansion rate.

Astronomers used Webb to find the star behind supernova 2025pht, revealing how thick dust can hide massive red supergiants.

An international team of astronomers has carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2024abvb—a recently ...