Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artistic impression of Nova V1674 Herculis. The recent deaths of two white dwarf stars are challenging our understanding of ...

Binary star systems are not rare. Neither are systems where one star is a remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star, and its companion is on the main sequence. In those systems, the dense remnant can ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado Boulder have directly observed, for the first time, ...

White dwarfs are the final stop for stars that aren’t massive enough to go out in a supernova. Think of them as the retirement phase for the vast majority of stars in our universe. When a star ...

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