In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

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Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has been getting bigger since the Big Bang. When the hydrogen and helium atoms ...

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

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

In a press release, Gold Hydrogen says the three investors will help develop the regional market for low-carbon hydrogen. The ...

A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.