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Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...
Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...
And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...
Astronomers have captured a jaw-dropping picture of star that exploded twice. It is the first time researchers have obtained ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...
Scientists have obtained photographic evidence of a double-detonation Type Ia supernova for the first time. This rare cosmic ...
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 ...
This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...
(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...