For more than a century, astronomers have known that some “new stars” flaring into view are not births at all but violent ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these explosions are ...

Astronomers have long struggled to capture the true nature of stellar nova explosions. However, thanks to cutting-edge ...

It’s not every day you get to see a star go nova. Scientists at Warsaw University Observatory in Poland have managed to catch a binary star system both before and after its explosive flash. The ...