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Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
There’s a chance we could see a white dwarf star explosion this year. T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system and recurrent nova located roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth, is expected to erupt ...
For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...
Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...
This lifespan began roughly 4.6 billion years ago, and will continue for about another 4.5 - 5.5 billion years, when it will deplete its supply of hydrogen, helium, and collapse into a white dwarf.
The Universe is a vast, twinkling enigma, teasing us with secrets that feel like they're just out of reach. Scientists at ...
If you wait even longer, eventually the stars will all burn out – stars like the sun last only about 10 billion years.
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...