A team of telescopes around the world, including the newly activated Vera C. Rubin Observatory, joined forces to observe the ...

A rare stellar explosion has allowed astronomers to follow the death of a massive star from start to finish, yielding one of the most complete datasets ever collected for such an event. The explosion ...

A new simulation suggests the Milky Way could be hiding a vast population of invisible black holes waiting to be found.

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Communications. The original story " Scientists find evidence of a rare double supernova in the Jellyfish Nebula " is published in The ...

The Jellyfish Nebula, one of the best-studied supernova remnants in our galaxy, may have been hiding a sibling this whole time.

The scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching work mainly on theory. A core area is the numerical simulation of astrophysical systems with high-performance and ultra-high ...

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The day after the Vera C. Rubin Observatory formally launched its decade-long sky survey, a new AI-driven analysis framework is ready to process what it finds — quadrupling the precision of cosmic ...

Back in the late 16th century, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and his German counterpart Johannes Kepler became the first Western scientists to record “new stars” in the sky. Some shone brilliantly, ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and sometimes violent death. For decades, astrophysicists have dreamed of creating a ...