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 ...
This is a supernova explosion. Astronomers aim to understand what types of stars produce different kinds of explosions. Do more massive stars result in brighter explosions? What happens if a star ...
The required supernova explosion would need to come from a massive star dying and exploding either within the Milky Way or one in of its satellite galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud.
to point in the direction of the nearby supernova when it explodes. When factoring in Fermi's field of view, this has a 1 in 10 chance of happening. The team thinks that just one detection of ...