When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A newly discovered pair of white dwarfs will both explode in a type 1a supernova when they circle ...

In space, a supernova is the explosion of a star. They result in a brilliant burst of energy and light and can be so luminous that they briefly outshine galaxies. Astronomers have long predicted that ...

Someday, a pair of white dwarfs will meet their fate, exploding in a rare quadruple supernova that will shine 10 times brighter than the moon. However, this event is not set to take place for another ...

In this picture, we capture the binary in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event ...

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An exploding star captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may be what researchers need to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. Researchers are still attempting to figure ...

In a galaxy far, far away, a celestial "force ghost" appears for the first time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 2012, a ...

An example of a supernova discovered by the Dark Energy Survey within the field covered by one of the individual detectors in the Dark Energy Camera. The supernova exploded in a spiral galaxy with ...

BERKELEY, Aug 23, 2012–Exploding stars called Type 1a supernova are ideal for measuring cosmic distance because they are bright enough to spot across the Universe and have relatively the same ...

Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, or ΛCDM—relies on hypothesized dark energy to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe. However, one competing theory known ...

Supernovae produced much more of the stardust that builds our world than once thought, according to new research. The nuclear reactions inside stars create all the chemical elements from carbon to ...