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Swift Catches Exploding Star
Monday, May 26th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA's scientists recently used the Swift Satellite in order to see a star explode and become a supernova. Although over the...

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Most Recent Supernova in Our Galaxy

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 - 10:08:52 - Ehud Rattner

The most recent supernova in our galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA's Chandra X-ray...

'Peanut' Stars May Explain Strange Supernova

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 - 08:29:29 - Ehud Rattner

A pair of yellow supergiant stars, orbiting so close to one another that they form a single peanut-shaped object, has been discovered in a nearby...

Cosmic Rays From the Geminga Supernova

Sunday, March 9th, 2008 - 08:05:00 - Ehud Rattner

The Milagro experiment has announced the discovery of an excess flux of TeV cosmic rays from the general direction of the heliotail, also close to...

Red Novae - New Type of Supernovas
Friday, April 20th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth
Astronomers have discovered a new class of stellar explosions that are larger than a regular nova but not quite as large as...