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 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 ...

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 ...

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

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

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

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 ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...