"Like any spiral galaxy, its disc is filled with billions of shining stars that give it a beautiful glow." Data collected by Hubble has also revealed a live Type I supernova called SN 2017GAX ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer ...

In either case, this occurs when the stars are locked in tight orbits, which slowly decay so they spiral ever closer. If there were a future core collapse supernova that close to home, we would ...

T he subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... known as a "type Ia supernova" occurs when a white dwarf—the ...

searching a larger volume of our galaxy, to encounter them.” [ Related: The hunt for the first stars in the universe. ] In the case of this star system’s supernova event, it’s expected that ...

Galaxies are huge collections of billions of stars like our Sun. Our Sun belongs to a spiral galaxy called the Milky ... expanding until it explodes as a supernova. Image caption, An exploding ...

These two stars are on ... a larger volume of our galaxy, to encounter them. "Finding this system is not the end of the story though, our survey searching for type 1a supernova progenitors is ...