JWST Unlocks New Clues in the Crab Nebula
Today’s authors used the powerful JWST to explore the heart of the Crab Nebula in infrared light, uncovering new details about its structure, composition, and the supernova explosion that created it.
Could a heart of darkness power pair-instability supernovae?
Pair-Instability Supernovae could be the fate of some of the universe’s most massive stars. Today’s Astrobite explores if dark matter accumulated in the cores of these stars could help drive these gargantuan explosions!
It’s gonna blow! Chasing the next Milky Way supernova
Today’s authors analyze a star that may soon explode!
Black Hole, Why Don’t You Come Over? White Dwarf Supernova!
The origin of dim supernovae known as Ca-rich transients is still not well-understood. Could it be that these rare events are set off by an encounter between a white dwarf and a primordial black hole?
A New H0pe for the Hubble Constant?
The Hubble Tension is one of the great mysteries of modern cosmology…can today’s paper help us solve it?
But what is a supernova, really?
How can we learn about the progenitor stars of supernovae just from their light curve?