When I joined Phenomena, Carl Zimmer asked: What obsesses you? Among my obsessions, I answered, are type 1a supernovae. Here we go. How can an astronomical object of such crucial cosmological ...

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 ...

An artistic rendering of the moment when the first white dwarf explodes and spews material at the second white dwarf, which itself is about to explode. Credit University of Warwick/Mark Garlick ...

White dwarf explosions may be initiated by uranium in the stellar core detonating like a nuclear weapon. Cosmic A-bomb? A type 1a supernova, SN2014J (inset), in ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. We caution that the conclusions we have come to regarding SN 2011fe rely on a theoretical interpretation. A companion paper 8 uses ...