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Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent ...

In 1604, German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed a supernova in the night sky. Scientists now know it was the result of the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star. For roughly 25 years, NASA ...