Astronomers used Webb to find the star behind supernova 2025pht, revealing how thick dust can hide massive red supergiants.
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NASA's Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded As Supernova 40 Million Years Ago: Impact Explained
The light from the explosion did not reach Earth till June 29, 2025, when the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae detected it.
The James Webb Space Telescope has only been researching for three and a half years, but it has already imaged a giant star that has since exploded.
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NASA’s Webb telescope locates star that exploded in nearby galaxy 40 million years ago
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the progenitor star of supernova 2025pht, a stellar explosion that occurred 40 million years ago in the galaxy NGC 1637. This discovery, detailed in a ...
A pair of incredible images taken at the very moment two different stars exploded are also an accurate representation of how our feeble minds are being melted at the awesome but terrifying cosmic ...
A team of astronomers led by the Flatiron Institute’s Kishalay De discovered that a star in the Andromeda Galaxy disappeared without going supernova, and instead collapsed directly into a black hole.
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