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 ...

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

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 had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

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Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

Nearly half the citizens of the tiny Pacific Island nation have already applied in a lottery for Australian visas amid an ...

A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have been contaminated by preservation materials. A new estimate suggests the mammoth-ivory artefact is 40, ...

Astronomers have visually confirmed a star's demise through double detonation, using the European Southern Observatory's Very ...

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Yellowstone National Park has a new plan for dealing with geologic hazards like thermal explosions and earthquakes for the ...