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New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...
The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...
The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...
"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...
This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, ...
Astronomers have found a distant galaxy referred to as a cosmic fossil that has stayed virtually unchanged, or frozen in time ...
Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...