Two stellar explosions that lit up the sky in 2021 have now been dissected in unprecedented detail, revealing tangled shells, colliding flows of gas, and structures that defy decades of textbook ...

New images reveal that stellar eruptions unfold in chaotic stages, with twisting outflows and late ejections that power ...

This release is available in German. Elements heavier than iron come into being only in powerful stellar explosions, supernovae. During nuclear reactions all kinds of short-lived atomic nuclei are ...

Learn how new high-resolution images of two nova eruptions offer fresh insight into how these stellar explosions release ...