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If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

Lake Tanganyika, located along the East African Rift, is over 400 miles long, the deepest lake in Africa, and holds 16% of ...

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

These interesting objects are born from once-large stars that grew to four to eight times the size of our own sun before exploding in ... hundred million tons on Earth. A neutron star's almost ...

They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of light, but when they hit the Earth they are generally blocked by our ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around ... occurred at the same time radiation from an ancient supernova bathed Earth in cosmic rays. This could imply a link between the diversification ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory ...