Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

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

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

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

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

According to a fairly new theory, white dwarfs can explode twice in a row in certain circumstances. For the first time, we ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

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

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

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...