When the bright star Betelgeuse explodes, it will be an impressive sight. The stellar explosion, known as a supernova, will be brighter than any planet and almost as bright as the full moon.
Today, we know them to be not stars being born but stars in their death throes, and we call the event a supernova. (The earliest record of a possible supernova appears in a prehistoric rock carving ...
When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it as a “guest star” in the Cassiopeia constellation.
Astronomers’ best view yet of the aftermath of a “guest star” supernova seen in 12th-century China and Japan has revealed one of the strangest objects in the heavens. It consists of hundreds ...
Pauline Black of ska royalty The Selecter performing at the 10th Supernova International Ska Festival in Virginia. (Credit: Heather Augustyn) It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the ...