There are arguably a lot of things defy categorization, but it’s not everyday that we find something that suggests we do away with our categories altogether. The authors of today’s paper believe that the recently-discovered Type II supernova ASASSN-13co — read that as “assassin”, please — might just be one of the latter.
How do the most massive stars explode? A new model of massive stars predicts new observational evidence.
How does a massive star’s rotation affect the properties of its eventual explosion?
Some GRB-SNe pairs show interesting correlations across their light curves.
Spectra from the light echoes of distant supernovae can be used to probe the three dimensional structure of these massive and poorly-understood explosions.
Archival data are able to place constraints on the origin of supernova 2011fe.