Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered an unexpected shockwave around a dead star. The team behind the shock discovery (in more ways than one) is baffled by this beautiful ...

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, colorful shock wave apparently blasting out from a white dwarf that was ...

"The surprise that a supposedly quiet, discless system could drive such a spectacular nebula was one of those rare 'wow' moments." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star RXJ0528+2838. When a star moves through space it can push away nearby ...