Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision ...

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It ...

As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...

The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about every 80 years. Astronomers are pointing ...

The nearby T Coronae Borealis system could still explode any day now, but calculations suggest the next best chance for fireworks is later this year.

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars ...

Credit: INAF/G. Valerin, A. Rigutti "This speed is decidedly lower than that of an exploding supernova, which often reaches 10,000 kilometers per second [22 million mph],” team member and INAF ...