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New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.
A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...
Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...
Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this ...
The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...
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 ...
Supernovae, these gigantic stellar explosions, release a phenomenal amount of energy. This energy travels through space, ...