Astronomers at the University of Sydney are part of a team that has taken images of the thermonuclear fireball from a ‘nova star’ for the first time tracking the explosion as it expands. Astronomers ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists in a collaboration led by Dai Takei of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Japan have, for the first time, examined a detailed "time lapse" X-ray image of the expansion of a ...

When a star undergoes a nova explosion, it’s effectively shuddering in its final death rattle, a natural process whose galactic ramifications give birth to other stars. By studying said process, ...

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 nova ...