Supernova Discovered

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  NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed

  On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, featuring the contributions of dedicated citizen scientists, made a groundbreaking discovery: an object moving at an astonishing speed of 1 million miles per hour, which will soon escape the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. This hypervelocity object, catalogued as CWISE J124909.08+...

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  Scientists Capture Supernova As Massive Star Explodes Millions Of Light-Years Away

  The supernova, dubbed "SN 2023ixf," was discovered on 19 May by Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki.

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  Dormant Black Hole Deemed ‘Needle in a Haystack’ Identified Outside the Milky Way

  Astronomers have identified a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have been born without the explosion of a dying star, in a galaxy adjacent to the Milky Way. Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so intense not even light can escape. Deemed a cosmic "needle in a haystack", the newly discovered ‘d...

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  Florida University Research Team Discovers Unique Supernova Explosion

  One-hundred million light-years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding. That exploding star -- which is known as "Supernova LSQ14fmg" -- was the faraway object discovered by a 37-member international research team led by Florida State University (FSU) Assistant Professor of Physics Eric Hsiao.

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  NASA's Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Crab Nebula's 'Beating Heart'

  For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the supernova Crab Nebula's 'beating heart', an inner region that sends out pulses of radiation and tsunamis of charged particles.

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  White Dwarf Star Shows Presence of Pure Oxygen

  The finding could challenge the textbook wisdom of single stellar evolution and provide a critical link to some types of supernovae discovered over the past decade.

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  These Newly Discovered Stars May be the Oldest in Our Galaxy

  Stars recently discovered in the center of the Milky Way may be the oldest scientists have ever seen. Dating back to when the universe was just 300 million years young - which is incredibly early in the universe's 13.8 billion year history - the new-old stars were probably born before our galaxy even existed.

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  Nasa's SOFIA Helps Find Missing Link Between Supernovae and Planet Formation

  An international team using the SOFIA observatory discovered supernovae can produce a substantial material from which planets are formed.

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  NASA Discovers Link between Supernovae and Planet Formation

  Using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), an international scientific team has discovered that supernovae are capable of producing a substantial amount of the material from which planets like Earth can be formed.

• Astronomers discover brightest, most distant supernovae ever

  Astronomers have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light-years away from Earth, which are hundred times more luminous than a normal supernova.

• Ten-year-old discovers supernova

  A 10-year-old Canadian girl has won herself a little star power for discovering a supernova.Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton spotted an exploding star on Sunday while looking at images of the night sky sent to her by an astronomer friend of the family.She is the youngest person ever to make such a discovery.Kathryn's father, Paul Gray, is an amat...