"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Skywatchers are scanning the night sky for an explosion that happened 3,000 years ago. A nova called T Coronae Borealis, ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

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

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There is a “doomed pair of spiraling stars” swirling only 150 light-years away from Earth–practically our neighbor in space ...

the 48th brightest star in the night sky. T Corona Borealis is a binary star system around 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis, the “Northern Crown.” It consists of a ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a ...