A brilliant blast from a galaxy 2 billion light-years away is the brightest cosmic “Cow” found yet. It’s the fifth known object in this new class of exploding stars and their long-glowing remnants, ...

Back in 2018, a massive cosmic explosion made its way to earth as a bright flash of blue. The flash was quickly nicknamed AT2018cow, or "the Cow". At the time, many believed it could have been a ...

A cosmic flare-up called the Cow seems to have left behind a black hole or neutron star. When the flash was spotted in June 2018, astronomers debated its origins. Now, astrophysicist DJ Pasham of MIT ...

A bizarre object called "the Cow" is the flattest explosion ever detected, and the first example of a rare phenomenon called a fast blue optical transient (FBOT). When you purchase through links on ...

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New research has been published about a very strange explosion that was detected in 2018. This explosion stunned astronomers when it was discovered, as it was pancake-shaped rather than spherical.

On June 16, 2018, an unusually bright glow suddenly appeared in the sky. The blast came from a faraway galaxy 200 million light years away. Astronomers officially dubbed it AT2018cow, but it’s ...

A weird cosmic explosion that stunned scientists in 2018 just got even stranger. A new analysis of the polarized light from the first recorded fast blue optical transient (FBOT) explosion — officially ...