A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily violent quadruple detonation. The two ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.