When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A newly discovered pair of white dwarfs will both explode in a type 1a supernova when they circle ...

A team of astronomers have observed an explosion in the universe unlike any ever witnessed before. The mysterious repeating ...

A team of astronomers have observed an explosion in the universe unlike any ever witnessed before. The gamma-ray bursts from ...

In a breakthrough study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have discovered a new origin for some of the fastest stars ever observed: hypervelocity white dwarfs—compact stellar remnants ...

This is a movie of the explosion of a double white dwarf binary star system. The simulation was published in Nature Astronomy by James Munday and collaborations in LINK. Full credit goes to Dr.

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A groundbreaking study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyhas revealed that supernovae, the explosive deaths of stars, may have played a significant role in altering Earth’s ...