by Jonathan Nally | Aug 16, 2019 | Astronomy
US-based scientists have detailed the death throes of an unusual star 200 times the mass of the Sun, in a galaxy one billion light-years from Earth. The unusual supernova is challenging what scientists think they know about supernova explosions, and gives clues to...
by Jonathan Nally | Feb 9, 2018 | News, Planets
Pictured: An artist’s impression of the trio of super-Earths discovered by a European team using the HARPS spectrograph on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, after 5 years of monitoring. The three planets, having 4.2, 6.7, and 9.4 times the mass of...