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Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...
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” ...
Credit: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2025). DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/adb0f1 The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass.
How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...
Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...
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 ...