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Just 150 light years away from us, two white dwarf stars are hurtling towards a gigantic explosion. It is inevitable, but also far in the future.

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

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Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.