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

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

Scientists believe that many more such objects regularly pass by the Earth, with a number of them flying relatively near to ...

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...

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 ...

The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation ...

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Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have tracked the first-ever visual proof of double detonations in white ...

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