For about three years now, scientists have been anticipating a nova explosion. Specifically, the explosion of the binary star ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Nova explosions, which were thought until now to be relatively simple, are actually turning out to be very different. An international team has published in Nature Astronomy images with ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these explosions are ...