Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations ...

Astronomers have used near-infrared light to explore the extreme forces behind the eruption of LMC68, a recurrent nova in the ...

Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf ... and 22 days after the initial outburst with the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory.

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

Using the Gemini South telescope ... Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf -- the dense remnant of a dead star -- continually siphons stellar material from a nearby ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Both of the stars are victims of each other’s gravity, though, eventually forming into a kilonova explosion when they collide sometime in the future. Many binary star systems see one star ...