Any time a new entry is added to the list of astronomical discoveries, the real work begins. From then on, it is up to researchers to decipher the background, the causes and the basic characteristics of the galactic find.

This is a very demanding task and one that doesn’t always lead to revealing findings. On the contrary: many objects and structures that are newly added to the star maps initially come off as great mysteries.

But it is precisely those mysteries that are of immeasurable value to the scientific community. Only if we uncover and unravel hitherto unknown processes and structures of the universe can we add further pieces of the mosaic to the overall picture of the cosmos.

Even the enormous explosion that researchers recently identified in the gigantic expanse of space is still waiting to be fully unravelled. What the astronomers have been able to find out so far about this violent event, and which discovery made scientific headlines in addition, we reveal to you now!