Sunday, 24 August 2025 () Paris, France (SPX) Aug 22, 2025
Supernovae appear to our eyes-and to astronomical instruments-as brilliant flashes that flare up in the sky without warning, in places where nothing was visible just moments before. The flash is caused by the colossal explosion of a star. Because supernovae are sudden and unpredictable, they have long been difficult to study, but today, thanks to extensive, continuous, high-cadence sky surveys,