Students and staff at UCL's teaching observatory, the University of London Observatory, have spotted one of the closest supernova to Earth in recent decades. At 19:20 GMT on 21 January, a team of ...

Yesterday morning, the world woke up to an exceedingly rare astronomical delight: A nearby star going supernova. Located in galaxy Messier 82 (M82, the Cigar Galaxy), just 11 million light years away, ...

This new image of galaxy Messier 82, acquired by astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, is said to be “the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths.” In fact ...

An international team of astronomers led from Chalmers has used the giant radio telescope LOFAR to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths. Made by observing ...