Groundbreaking measurement of the expansion of the universe reshapes a long-running debate
This image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+223, whose light has taken more than 5 billion years to reach us. The cluster's massive mass
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This image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+223, whose light has taken more than 5 billion years to reach us. The cluster's massive mass
Scientists have identified a star that they say survived a massive explosion and ended up being brighter than before.
Star at issue is white dwarf, which is an incredibly dense object with about mass of sun crammed into size of Earth
WASHINGTON — Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death — a stellar explosion called a supernova — but emerged from it brighter than before the blast. Meet the "zombie star." The star at issue, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope, is a kind known as a...
WASHINGTON—Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have ...