Astronomers don’t often get to witness a gigantic star getting undressed. But that is exactly what they witnessed with SN2021yfj, a 2.2-billion-light-year-away stellar explosion whose naked look has ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, which leave behind a black hole or a neutron star, are so energetic they can ...

Supernovae represent the dramatic endpoints of stellar evolution, and recent studies have expanded our understanding of the complex interplay between explosion mechanisms and the nature of progenitor ...