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"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...
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 ...
This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...
An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...
Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...
Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...
Astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a white dwarf star undergoing a rare “double detonation” before exploding in a Type Ia supernova. Studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 with ESO’s ...
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It is the first time researchers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end via double detonation. The post ...
A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...