New Delhi: An international team of astronomers have captured two novae from 2021 in unprecedented detail, designated as V1674 Herculis and V1405 Cassiopeiae. These are stellar explosions where a white dwarf, the remnant core of a dead star accretes material from a binary companion, then periodically and violently sheds the material in thermonuclear outbursts called novae. Studying novae soon after their discovery has revealed that such explosions are more complex than previously thought. Until recently, astronomers could only infer the early stages of these eruptions indirectly, because the expanding cloud of........

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