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New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...
According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...
Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have tracked the first-ever visual proof of double detonations in white ...
In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...
This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...
Now, they’ve captured the first visual proof: the ancient remnants of a supernova called SNR 0509-67.5 show signs of this ...
A stronomers have finally found evidence for a proposed mechanism for a special kind of supernova, known as a Type Ia ...