supernovas
Scientists Are Studying Using Supernovas as Fuel for Interstellar Travel
“If there are some other technological species that are more advanced than we are, then this could be a viable means of transportation for them."
How Two-Sunned ‘Tatooine’ Planets Escape Being Crushed By Their Host Stars
Earth will one day be eaten by our sun. These planets might avoid that.
The World's Most Powerful Space Camera Begins Another Year of Incredible Photos
The Dark Energy Survey returns this fall. If it's anything like the first, expect many more wild space discoveries.
This Superluminous Supernova Does Not Care About the Laws of Physics
The supernova known as DES13S2cmm plays by its own rules.
Physicists Made a Mini Supernova in a Lab Using High-Powered Lasers
Because modeling a supernova in the field is impossible (for now!), researchers set out to understand Cassiopeia A's shape by recreating the events in a laboratory.
NASA Shines New Light on the Brightest Explosions in the Universe
It may look embryonic, but the type "1A Supernova":http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/supernovae/type1.html is anything but, with the exception that it involves a concentrated amount of energy with the potential for generative creation. Unlike...
Building the Universe: Most Ancient Supernovas Discovered
Supernovas are the astrophysical equivalent of early Black Flag records. They are short, violent bursts whose aftereffects endure long after the initial explosion has quieted. A group of astronomers at Tel Aviv University has thus found the equivalent...