The stars in this rare high mass and compact binary star system are on a collision course with one another that should result in a special kind of supernova. Astronomers expect them to explode as ...

After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova. Scientists have long predicted that two orbiting white dwarf stars are responsible for creating Type 1a supernovas ...

These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky. Type 1a supernovae are a special class of cosmic explosion ...

The supernova destruction of this white dwarf will ... Before it goes boom, there is much to learn about the HD 49798/RX J0648.0-4418 binary. Mereghetti, who was part of the team that discovered ...

Today, we know them to be not stars being born but stars in their death throes, and we call the event a supernova. (The earliest record of a possible supernova appears in a prehistoric rock ...