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A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...
"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...
The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...
Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...
These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.
The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for ...
Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.
The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...
The “Blaze Star” is a rare nova that could produce an explosion visible with the naked eye in the next few nights, located about 3,000 light years from Earth and part of the ...