Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. | Credit: Mickael Rigault and the Palomar Observatory/Caltech. There are a lot of ways for ...

Astronomers have made the first detection of a supernova in radio waves, finding that an exploding white dwarf star was feeding from a companion star like a cosmic vampire before it blew. Rather than ...

Researchers have assembled Unite, the largest internally consistent Type Ia supernova Hubble diagram yet, combining 2,884 ...

Right now, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is under construction on Cerro Pachón in Chile. Later this year, the construction should be complete and science operations should begin. The observatory will ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...

When a white dwarf shares a solar system with a full-sized companion star, sometimes it will siphon gas from its larger neighbor. The accreted hydrogen and helium builds up on the surface of the white ...

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