A supernova is the biggest explosion that humans have ever seen. Each blast is the extremely bright, super-powerful explosion of a star. One type of supernova is caused by the “last hurrah” of a dying massive star. This happens when a star at least five times the mass of our sun goes out with a fantastic bang! Massive stars burn huge amounts of nuclear fuel at their cores, or centers. This produces tons of energy, so the center gets very hot. Heat generates pressure, and the pressure created by

Did Hubble really capture a star exploding? That’s what this viral video claims: a time-lapse of a supernova caught by the Hubble Space Telescope. So I went searching for the original. I checked NASA, ESA, Hubble’s archive… nothing. No matching supernova. No light echo. No official release. Reverse image search? Just more viral posts giving contradictory info. Some say it’s from 60 million light-years away, others say 10. I finally found a name for the supernova, supposedly in Centaurus A, but e

Scientists captured the explosive death of a star at the exact moment when the blast was breaking through its surface. | Interstellar Traveller