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A supernova refers to the explosion of a star at the end of its lifecycle. When stars die, they cave in on themselves, causing a massive explosion that radiates enormous amounts of heat and energy into space.
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OCT 25, 2022Space & Astronomy
On October 9, 2022, telescopes detected one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever! A gamma-ray burst (GRB) is an extrem ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.SEP 06, 2022Space & Astronomy
On August 21st, a NASA-funded sounding rocket mission launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The goal of ...Written By: Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.JUL 29, 2022Space & Astronomy
A recent study conducted by an international collaboration of experts and published in Nature Astronomy have discovered ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 19, 2022Space & Astronomy
While we’re all fascinated by supernovas and how awesome they look, our own Sun will not go supernova at the end o ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 29, 2022Space & Astronomy
The universe is a very big place full of awesome wonders that no human will ever see in its entirety, and that’s w ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 16, 2022Chemistry & Physics
Pulsars are remnants of dead stars that die by the process of supernova explosion. These explosions often leave either a ...Written By: Amanpreet KaurOCT 18, 2021Space & Astronomy
An unusual signal has been detected coming from center of the Milky Way - or that direction.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 19, 2021Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are gaining new insights on how our solar system was born from observations of a nearby star-forming region ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 23, 2021Space & Astronomy
Current theories suggest that stars undergo changes on timescales of millions or billions of years, and that their end i ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 21, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Australian National University have discovered the first ever extraterrestrial radioactive isoto ...Written By: Annie LennonMAY 01, 2021Space & Astronomy
Astrophysicists from the University of Minnesota have found evidence for the theory that small galaxies emitting high-en ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 21, 2021Chemistry & Physics
A new pulsar has been discovered with images from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, a low-frequency radio t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 08, 2021Space & Astronomy
You may know that the human body is made up of elements that almost all originated in stars, and many of those elements ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 27, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers have discovered a ten billion-year-old planetary system. While two of its planets are gaseous, as would be e ...Written By: Annie LennonJAN 13, 2021Space & Astronomy
We know that geysers like Old Faithful can erupt on a predictable schedule, and now researchers have learned more about ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 04, 2021Space & Astronomy
Researchers have found that there were likely many intelligent alien civilizations sprawled across our galaxy billions o ...Written By: Annie LennonNOV 20, 2020Chemistry & Physics
Masatoshi Koshiba, a revered Japanese physicist known for his groundbreaking work on cosmic neutrino detection, passed a ...Written By: Daniel DuanNOV 14, 2020Space & Astronomy
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have found that the rings in Earth's ancient trees may hold evid ...Written By: Annie LennonNOV 07, 2020Space & Astronomy
Scientists have identified a burst of cosmic radio waves- intense flashes of radio emission that last just a few millise ...Written By: Annie LennonNOV 04, 2020Space & Astronomy
A neutron star is born when a massive star dies out in a supernova, leaving its collapsed and incredibly dense core rema ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 18, 2020Space & Astronomy
Back in 2017, scientists theorized that elements heavier than iron- such as gold- came to be following a collision betwe ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 26, 2020Space & Astronomy
Over the roughly 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence, there have been several periods were biodiversity has been near ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 16, 2020Space & Astronomy
Matt Caplan, a theoretical physicist at Illinois State University, has calculated when the last supernova will happen in ...Written By: Annie LennonAUG 02, 2020Space & Astronomy
Astronomers were studying a massive star in the Kinman Dwarf Galaxy from 2001 to 2011. When they went back in 2019 to lo ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
OCT 25, 2022
Space & Astronomy
On October 9, 2022, telescopes detected one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts ever! A gamma-ray burst (GRB) is an extrem
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
SEP 06, 2022
Space & Astronomy
On August 21st, a NASA-funded sounding rocket mission launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The goal of
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
JUL 29, 2022
Space & Astronomy
A recent study conducted by an international collaboration of experts and published in Nature Astronomy have discovered
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 19, 2022
Space & Astronomy
While we’re all fascinated by supernovas and how awesome they look, our own Sun will not go supernova at the end o
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 29, 2022
Space & Astronomy
The universe is a very big place full of awesome wonders that no human will ever see in its entirety, and that’s w
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 16, 2022
Chemistry & Physics
Pulsars are remnants of dead stars that die by the process of supernova explosion. These explosions often leave either a
...
Written By:
Amanpreet Kaur
OCT 18, 2021
Space & Astronomy
An unusual signal has been detected coming from center of the Milky Way - or that direction.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 19, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are gaining new insights on how our solar system was born from observations of a nearby star-forming region
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 23, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Current theories suggest that stars undergo changes on timescales of millions or billions of years, and that their end i
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 21, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from Australian National University have discovered the first ever extraterrestrial radioactive isoto
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 01, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Astrophysicists from the University of Minnesota have found evidence for the theory that small galaxies emitting high-en
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 21, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
A new pulsar has been discovered with images from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, a low-frequency radio t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 08, 2021
Space & Astronomy
You may know that the human body is made up of elements that almost all originated in stars, and many of those elements
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 27, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have discovered a ten billion-year-old planetary system. While two of its planets are gaseous, as would be e
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JAN 13, 2021
Space & Astronomy
We know that geysers like Old Faithful can erupt on a predictable schedule, and now researchers have learned more about
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 04, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Researchers have found that there were likely many intelligent alien civilizations sprawled across our galaxy billions o
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
NOV 20, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Masatoshi Koshiba, a revered Japanese physicist known for his groundbreaking work on cosmic neutrino detection, passed a
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 14, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have found that the rings in Earth's ancient trees may hold evid
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
NOV 07, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have identified a burst of cosmic radio waves- intense flashes of radio emission that last just a few millise
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
NOV 04, 2020
Space & Astronomy
A neutron star is born when a massive star dies out in a supernova, leaving its collapsed and incredibly dense core rema
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 18, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Back in 2017, scientists theorized that elements heavier than iron- such as gold- came to be following a collision betwe
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 26, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Over the roughly 4.5 billion years of Earth's existence, there have been several periods were biodiversity has been near
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Matt Caplan, a theoretical physicist at Illinois State University, has calculated when the last supernova will happen in
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
AUG 02, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers were studying a massive star in the Kinman Dwarf Galaxy from 2001 to 2011. When they went back in 2019 to lo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch