The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

Most supernovae result from the dramatic collapse of massive stars, but one important type comes from a more modest origin. Known as Type Ia supernovae, these explosions are triggered by white dwarfs: ...

Lucy in the sky with calcium Astroboffins have found the first evidence of a double-detonated Type Ia supernova, which could explain why we have enough bright points of reference in the skies to plot ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...