Simulation of a Type Ia supernova in which material ejected from the explosion (red) runs into a companion star (blue). This collision adds extra ultraviolet light to the supernova as viewed from ...

The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They’re bright enough to see across large ...

Type Ia supernovae are stellar explosions used to measure the universe's expansion. These explosions result from white dwarfs exceeding a critical mass, causing them to reignite and explode. Two ...

The 2-m aperture Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), which observes at wavelengths ranging from 255 to 1000 nm, is expected to start science operations in 2024. An ultra-deep field observation ...

This is a movie of the explosion of a double white dwarf binary star system. The simulation was published in Nature Astronomy by James Munday and collaborations in LINK. Full credit goes to Dr.

So, instead, supernovae are categorized by observed characteristics such as the light curves of how they brighten and fade ...

The University of Chicago’s Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes will perform the world’s most advanced simulations of exploding white dwarf stars with an allocation of 2.5 million hours of ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...