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Red, horizontal splotches represent the center of the Milky Way galaxy with a greyscale background. A bright yellow dot represents the black hole at the center.
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See the heart of the Milky Way as it’s never been captured before

By Maggie Galloway

The mysterious burst AT2018cow
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Astronomers may have an origin story for ‘The Cow,’ a mysteriously powerful cosmic blast

By Leto Sapunar

An illustration of a quasar in space, blinding light that shoots out top and bottom, with matter swirling around perpendicularly.
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Blindingly bright black holes could help cosmologists see deeper into the universe’s past

By Charlie Wood

An illustration of a blue, circular star with space matter circling around it in an accretion disk, plus beams of light shooting vertically out of the star.
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This could be a brand new type of supernova

By Leto Sapunar

An image of the black expanse of space, with stars and a galaxy in the middle. A single small star is circled in white.
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Astronomers just confirmed a new type of supernova

By Hannah Seo

A side by side comparison of the star Betelgeuse in January and December of 2019. The star is was dimmer in December 2019.
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We finally know why the Betelgeuse star dimmed—and it’s not what you think

By Charlie Wood

The Kepler supernova was spotted in 1604. Four centuries later, material from the explosion is still expanding outward at more than 20 million miles per hour.
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Stars are dying all across the galaxy—why don’t we see them?

By Charlie Wood

An X-ray and optical composite image of a detonating star.
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Ancient supernovas may have pierced moon rocks with star shrapnel

By Charlie Wood

an image of the crab nebula
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NASA’s top observatories teamed up to capture an imploding star in captivating 3D

By Jessica Boddy

an orange star
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We really don’t know when Betelgeuse is going to explode

By Rachel Feltman

This fluffy ball contains the story of the universe
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This fluffy ball contains the story of the universe

By Jess Romeo

A bizarre new theory connects supernovae explosions with humans’ ability to walk upright
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A bizarre new theory connects supernovae explosions with humans’ ability to walk upright

By Neel V. Patel

a picture of space with a large circular smear of yellow light at the center
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An exploding space cow could be linked to a newborn black hole

By Neel V. Patel

Gravitational waves could solve a cosmological crisis within five years—or shake physics to its core
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Gravitational waves could solve a cosmological crisis within five years—or shake physics to its core

By Charlie Wood

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Astronomers think they saw a star exploding out of a giant gas bubble

By Mary Beth Griggs

a spiral galaxy
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An amateur astronomer accidentally caught an exploding star on camera—and it gets better

By Mary Beth Griggs

This truly bizarre exploding star might be a zombie of sorts
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This truly bizarre exploding star might be a zombie of sorts

By Rachel Feltman

Found: A star that last dazzled astronomers in 1437
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Found: A star that last dazzled astronomers in 1437

By Mary Beth Griggs

four supernovas
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A warp in space-time just gave us four views of one exploding star

By Sarah Fecht

Scientists spotted a supernova just hours after it exploded
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Scientists spotted a supernova just hours after it exploded

By Sarah Fecht