Astronomers from the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, and elsewhere have employed NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft to observe a pulsar wind nebula inside a supernova remnant known ...
Two stars that once lived together in the Jellyfish Nebula may have also died together.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of years ago two massive stars circled each other in a cosmic dance. Then one of the stars went supernova. The blast ...
In November 1572, a brilliant new star appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, shining so brightly that it was visible during the day. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe carefully documented this ...
The nebula MSH 15-52, which resembles a human hand with a palm and fingers pointing to the upper right in this view from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory. Near the center of the image is the pulsar ...
A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...