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 ...

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

Then, the supernova explosion — one with more power than a thousand trillion trillion nuclear bombs — will detonate. "This is [a] very significant discovery," Dr. Ingrid Pelisoli, Assistant ...

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 researchers say the star system will explode in a rare "quadruple detonation". As the white dwarf gets heavier, the ...