A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

"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 ...

Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

The largest and brightest is an enormous supergiant star about 100 times the mass of the Sun and five million times brighter.

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

(Web Desk) - Two new stars have suddenly appeared in the night sky, caused by some of the most powerful explosions in the ...

Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

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

Researchers have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled with supernova explosion. This approach could help us understand the ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...