Star Explosion Shines Like Christmas Ornament In Hubble Photo. ... Called SNR 0509-67.5, the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ...

Scientists propose two new explanations for the strange Christmas space explosion in 2010, which set off a powerful gamma-ray burst.

Christmas burst reveals neutron star collision Date: December 1, 2011 Source: DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory Summary: A strangely powerful, long-lasting gamma-ray burst on Christmas Day, 2010 ...

It’s a nova explosion located in a star system 3,000 light years away from Earth and astronomers predict it will be visible to the "unaided eye" sometime in 2024.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a festive holiday bauble in space a delicate sphere of gas floating serenely in the cosmos.

The Christmas sky last year was lit up by an extraordinarily powerful and mysteriously long-lasting explosion in space that scientists now suggest was a comet smacking into a dense star or a ...