For the first time, astronomers have captured clear, detailed images of two stars explosions just days after their eruption.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cosmic detectives are investigating a case of mistaken stellar identity: An exploding star that ...

New observations made with APEX and other telescopes have now revealed that the star that European astronomers saw was not a nova, but a much rarer, violent breed of stellar collision. It was ...

After a stellar explosion was reported in 1866, British astronomer John Herschel announced he had seen a bright flare from the same location 24 years earlier. Herschel's claim was contested almost ...

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Cosmic detectives are investigating a case of mistaken stellar identity: An exploding star that was once thought to be the oldest recorded nova — a nuclear explosion on the surface of a dead star — ...

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