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What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...
"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 have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...
New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...
In the constellation Perseus the Hero, the star Algol is fun to watch due to its regular changes in brightness. And you don’t ...
The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...