When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A newly discovered pair of white dwarfs will both explode in a type 1a supernova when they circle ...

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The shredded remains of a stellar explosion glow bright red in a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. The vibrant cosmic ribbons of gas are the result of an explosion of a white dwarf ...

That left the much rarer Type Ia supernova as the strongest candidate, events that generally occur once or twice each century in a given galaxy. These supernovas are the source of most of the iron in ...