As a star nears the end of its life, it faces two very different fates: It can explode as a supernova, leaving behind a ...

Our basic understanding of core-collapse supernovae hasn’t changed in decades. Large stars burn through all the fuel at their cores and start creating heavier elements in reactions that consume energy ...

Exploding oldies Massive stars exploding in a core-collapse supernova explosion can be used as tracers for actively forming stars and the physical consequences their explosive deaths exert on the ...

One of the brightest stars in the night sky is living on borrowed time, and its eventual death promises to be one of the great spectacles of the cosmos. When the aging red supergiant that marks the ...