That makes it the largest and arguably most successful supernova surveyor to date. "There are trillions of stars in the universe, and about every second, one of them explodes," California ...

For the first time, astronomers have taken a high-quality, zoomed-in photo of a star outside our galaxy — and it's right on the brink of exploding in a violent supernova. The new close-up image, ...

Instead of exploding into a supernova or turning into a white dwarf, the star’s outer layers now lie scattered and its core is exposed. Understanding how this happened can help scientists ...