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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artistic rendering of the newly discovered binary star system in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, ...

Astronomers have uncovered an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a binary star system consisting of two white dwarf stars, located just 150 light-years away from Earth. These stars are on a ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal Nature Astronomy, this duo offers the strongest evidence yet that type 1a ...

In this picture, we capture the binary in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event ...