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In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...
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 ...
"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...
Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...
Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...
Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...
The "new stars" are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, but people have spotted them from the United States by looking ...
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...