The spiral galaxy M83 is captured face-on, providing a clear view of its full structure. Chandra's X-ray data reveals ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has captured a stunning view of supernova remnant ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium is shown in blue, and it is arranged in two concentric shells. These two ...

A catalog of over 2,000 exploding white dwarf vampire stars, the largest ever gathered, has provided further evidence that ...

“Supernova remnants are our best cosmic laboratories for understanding how nature accelerates the highest-energy cosmic rays,” said Roger Blandford of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A newly identified supernova remnant, G305.4–2.2 ("Teleios"), displays an unusually perfect circular symmetry, rare among known remnants.

Supernova remnants reveal how the star exploded Date: December 21, 2009 Source: Chandra X-ray Center Summary: A new study of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on supernova remnants ...

Supernova remnant W49B is one of the brightest in the galaxy, in terms of its X-ray and gamma ray emission. Previous observations found that the iron atoms were nearly absent from one side of the ...

The stellar corpse, a supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219, met its demise in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. NASA , ESA , STScI, ...

Several such remnants have been identified and are the subjects of close study. Among these are the well-known Crab Nebula, produced by a supernova that went off in 1054; a beautiful, bubble ...