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

"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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

How do supernovas occur? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers examine how recent radio wave emissions have not only helped astronomers identify the ...

“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 ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...