This is not to be confused with a supernova, a star's "core collapse" that leads to its complete destruction. According to NASA, that can only happen to stars about eight times the mass of our sun.

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ... This particular supernova, named SN 2024PI, was discovered by an automated survey in January 2024. The survey covers the entire northern half of the ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrated ... The Crab Nebula is a remnant of a supernova explosion. All the new Chandra images are gorgeous. The Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova ...

Interstellar gas and dust heated by a centuries-old supernova glows in infrared light that was detected by JWST. | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Jacob Jencson (Caltech/IPAC) The spaces between ...