"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

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

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

Type I supernova: A star accumulates matter from a nearby neighbor until a runaway nuclear reaction ignites. Type II supernova: A star runs out of nuclear fuel and collapses under its own gravity.

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

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...