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"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...
A pair of white dwarfs, located just 150 light-years from Earth, appears doomed to die in a type 1a supernova that will shine ...
Astronomers have identified a binary white dwarf system, located just 150 light-years from Earth, that is expected to end in ...
Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.
Astronomers are closely monitoring the binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), anticipating a rare nova eruption that ...
These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.
At the bottom of the ocean, evidence of what researchers are calling a “supernova graveyard” has been discovered. But what ...
Astronomers have spotted two huge white dwarf stars which they say are destined to explode together in a supernova - 22 billion years from now.