Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision ...

Every star that hangs upon the evening firmament will one day die, its lights snuffed and its fires cooling in the dwindling ...

Astronomers have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarfs are the cause of most type 1a supernova explosions. While the ...

In a nutshell A ticking cosmic time bomb lies just 160 light-years from Earth: Astronomers have discovered a rare double ...

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for ...

A binary star system about 150 light years from Earth, right on our cosmic doorstep, is on track to collide as a type 1a ...

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

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

This is a movie of the explosion of a double white dwarf binary star system. The simulation was published in Nature Astronomy by James Munday and collaborations in LINK. Full credit goes to Dr.

By Alimat Aliyeva A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems i ...