supernova

That amount of energy is comparable to the output of several billion supernova explosions, the powerful blasts produced when certain stars reach the ends of their lives.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

One especially energetic kind of Pop III supernova, called a pair-instability supernova, can eject more than 100 times the Sun's mass in heavy elements during a single explosion.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

If that were true, astronomers could have been misreading the supernova data and incorrectly concluding that cosmic expansion was speeding up when it was actually slowing.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Very massive stars can end their lives in supernova explosions, but such events are relatively uncommon.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

All the words poured out of me, a supernova of nouns and verbs, the containers of everything, now nameless, now just there.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Measurements of Type Ia supernovae were central to the discovery that the expansion of the universe appears to be speeding up, a breakthrough recognized with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

The team also said the South Korean study did not properly account for the mass of the galaxies hosting the supernovae.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

However, the South Korean study published last year challenged it by arguing that Type Ia supernovae did not all reach the same peak brightness as the universe aged.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

The scientists investigated the motion, brightness, and chemical properties of supernovae produced through this proposed PBH-triggered explosion channel.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

In five years, with the new technique, Perlmutter and his colleagues at Berkeley found forty-two supernovae.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

"Our prediction is that we'll see a lot more galactic cosmic radiation... which is from supernovas and is everywhere," versus radiation coming from the Sun, he said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Studies of very bright exploding stars called supernovas showed that rather than slowing down, distant galaxies were actually accelerating away from each other.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

Long duration GRBs are caused by supernovas, the point when a massive star reaches the end of its life and explodes into a burst of light.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

Ever since, neutrinos have been detected in the Sun, during supernovas and even in interactions between cosmic rays and the upper atmosphere.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2023

But unlike Hubble’s dim Cepheids, supernovas are visible halfway across the universe.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife