Scientists have revealed for the first time a jaw-dropping early view of an exploding supernova. Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed ...
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface. For ...
The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.
"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...