Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision ...

These explosions happen when a white dwarf, which is already an ultra-dense star remnant, takes in too much mass.

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

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A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

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The two stars, a red dwarf and a white dwarf, orbit a common center of gravity every 125 minutes. They are located about 1,600 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Big Dipper.

When the two dense stellar remnants, known as white dwarfs, finally merge, they will trigger a Type 1a supernova, a powerful thermonuclear explosion that scientists predict will shine nearly ten times ...

With the gap between them very gradually narrowing as the binary system loses energy, the fact that they are so massive and so close ensures their demise over a large timescale.