In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

A stronomers have finally found evidence for a proposed mechanism for a special kind of supernova, known as a Type Ia supernova. It was proposed that at least some of them experience a double ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...