The nova, which was discovered in 2021, is the fastest classical nova on record. This image shows the difference in brightness over just four days. Advanced Search ...

Scientists have, for the first time, examined a detailed "time lapse" X-ray image of the expansion of a classical nova explosion using the GK Persei nova -- a binary star system which underwent a ...

That rarity makes the team's new observations an important step in understanding the hidden lives of classical novae and what ultimately leads to their explosive behavior. "By studying images from ...

Even though it is 20,000 light-years away – a terribly faint pinprick of light barely visible among brighter stars, even in magnified images – this was a rare opportunity to study the build-up and ...

Figure 1: Long-term light curve of V1213 Cen (Nova Cen 2009). Several images of Nova Cen 2009 were also collected immediately after the eruption, from 13 May to 26 May 2009. Because all these ...

Image displaying the location of Nova Centauri ... The behavior is in line with predictions madeunder the hibernation model for classical novae systems. If Nova Centauri 2009 is indeedfollowing ...

Classical novae can be considered to be “miniature ... differences in the X-ray emission and its properties. This new image of GK Persei contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), optical data ...

The nova eruption was observed in May 2009 and took place 20,000 light years away Astronomers have captured rare images of a tiny star before, during and after it exploded as a "classical nova".

In a classical nova, one member of the binary is a white ... Harvard archives that captured more than a century's worth of images of the sky. The researchers discovered a shell of debris likely ...

Unlike the more famous supernova, the classical nova is not a destructive process ... digitize its incredible collection of glass-plated images of the stars, a record of the night sky that ...

In between the brightness of a classical nova and a supernova ... glowing and echoing in visible and infrared light. 6-image sequence of the luminous red nova eruption of V838 Monocerotis.