In March, a brief flash of X-rays lit up the sky in a distant galaxy. It lasted only moments, but it carried a profound message: a star had just begun to die.Get breaking news anytime, anywhere.

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Astronomers have captured one of the rarest events in the universe—the very first moments of a massive star exploding. The ...

Astronomers capture a rare shock breakout as a massive Wolf-Rayet star explodes into a broad-lined Type Ic supernova, ...

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Scientists have for the first time peered inside a dying star as it exploded in a supernova, gaining not just unprecedented views of its layers, but more so, insight into the process of stellar ...

WASHINGTON — The explosive death of a star, a supernova, is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious. Scientists now have ...

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In late 1572, long before the invention of the telescope, sky-watchers looking up at the night sky saw something impossible: a blazing new star where nothing had existed before.