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

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

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...