The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic mystery. Hidden beneath layers of dust, the doomed star revealed itself ...

A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers has captured the most detailed glimpse yet of a doomed star before it exploded. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the international team ...

What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...

Red supergiant DFK 52 and its surroundings as seen by ALMA. The vast, complex bubble blown by this extreme star is about 1.4 light years across, thousands of times wider than our Solar System. ALMA ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star—the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble, which contains as ...

Astronomers found the Milky Way's largest gas-and-dust bubble, shed by a red supergiant 4000 years ago, raising questions about how the star survived. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers from Chalmers ...

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star. It's the largest structure of its kind ever seen ...