Astronomers missed a space explosion as powerful as a billion suns — until they spotted its echo

A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...
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Hubble reveals the Crab Nebula is still exploding after 1,000 years, exposing a rare real-time view of cosmic expansion

A new analysis from NASA using the Hubble Space Telescope shows that the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova recorded in ...
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Rare 'daytime fireball' creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton smeteor explodes above eastern US

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a rare "fireball" that ...
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The Seven-Hour Mass Explosion That Broke the Rules of the Universe

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most violent flashes — capable of releasing more energy in a fraction of a second than ...

Exploding Comet Is Spotted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it ...
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Astronomers witness colossal supernova explosion create one of the most magnetic stars in the universe for the first time

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.