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Machine learning and state-of-the-art supernova nucleosynthesis has helped researchers find that the majority of observed second-generation stars in the universe were enriched by multiple supernovae.

When stars die, they spread the elements they’ve created in their cores out to space. But other objects and processes in space also create elements. Eventually, that “star stuff” scatters across the ...

image: This is a three-color composite image of the young supernova (SN) remnant Cassiopeia A. The areas bright in red, green, and blue are where iron (Fe), sulfur (S), and oxygen (O) are abundant, ...

Using ESA’s Integral observatory, an international team of researchers has been able to confirm the production of radioactive aluminium (Al 26) in massive stars and supernovae throughout our galaxy ...

Explosive nucleosynthesis is a research area in nuclear astrophysics that investigates the production of chemical elements and isotopes in environments where rapid energy release drives nonequilibrium ...

Stellar nucleosynthesis is the research area concerned with the nuclear processes by which chemical elements are formed and transformed within stars and related astrophysical environments. It ...