Exploding Stars!
Hubble Space Telescope image of supernova 1994D in galaxy NGC 4526.
The hunt for exploding stars, or supernovae, is an engaging activity that gets you peering into deep space. By monitoring a specified number of distant galaxies and the sky around them, amateurs routinely pick out a star that has exploded at the end of its life. By alerting professional astronomers at the earliest opportunity, more can be learned about the life cycle of stars.(Jul 29, 2013 03:48 PM ET // by Mark Thompson)
