Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

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

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

"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 ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...

European Southern Observatory . At 300 times the mass of our sun, R136a1 tips the scales of what astronomers thought was possible. It lies 165,000 light-years from Earth in a galactic star-forming ...