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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...

Astronomers have confirmed a pair of white dwarfs on a collision course to become a type 1a supernova—the brightest cosmic ...

A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems in the immediate vicinity ...

Thankfully, there are no such systems within 150 light-years of Earth. But there's this whole other kind of supernova, the Type 1a. These have a completely different mechanism for going boom. This is ...

Type Ia supernovae originate in binary star systems—systems where two stars orbit each other. In one possible scenario, there are two stars approximately the same size—let's say about the size ...

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

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

But there's this whole other kind of supernova, the Type 1a. These have a completely different mechanism for going boom. This is when a white dwarf is orbited by a companion that nears the end of ...