A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...