Wide Angle: Massive Cosmic Explosions
Hold tight, Discovery News is about to take you on a tour of some of the most violent ways a star can die. We've got novae, supernovae and gamma-ray bursts... this is as destructive as it gets!
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WR 104: The Dying Star With Deadly Potential
Dr. Grant Hill, a researcher at the Keck Observatory, tells Discovery News whether or not we are staring down the barrel of a potential GRB gun...
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The Recurrent Nova of RS Ophiuchi
Ian O'Neill chats with Dr. Richard Barry, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, about the fascinating recurrent nova, RS Ophiuchi and it's beautiful dust spiral.
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Hunting For Gamma Ray Bursts
Mike Simonsen, Development Director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) shares his passion of variable stars with Discovery Space, but points out that variable star astronomers now have some help to find gamma-ray bursts...
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Giant Star Boils, Releasing Matter Into Space
Astronomers have long been curious how red supergiant stars, like the bright star, Betelgeuse, manage to shed so much matter into space. Now astronomers have noticed the star beginning to shrink, what does this mean?
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The Supercomputer Supernova
Computer visualization is an essential tool for scientists to gain an insight to how complex physical, biological and chemical phenomena work. From protein structures to the detonation of supernovae, scientists are finding faster, more precise and more powerful means of simulating these systems using supercomputers.
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