Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's ...
Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...
For the first time, scientists captured a supernova just hours after it began. This rare moment revealed the true shape of ...
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new supernova remnant (SNR) using radio observations. The ...
Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...
A supernova is one of the most powerful events that can happen in the Universe - we are talking, after all, about a star exploding – and because of that, they have always been actively researched by ...
WASHINGTON — A supernova — the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life — is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some — a small ...
It's never too late to solve a cold case. A new paper from Syracuse University researchers proposes an explanation for both a mysterious stellar object discovered in the year 2013 and an astronomical ...