For the first time, a team of astronomers has captured a clear image of a white dwarf star that exploded not just once, but twice, as a Type Ia supernova — a "double-detonation" that scientists hadn't ...

This image, the cover of the book, is the Elephant Trunk nebula, in the cluster of stars known as IC 1396. Our eyes would not see the red light of hot hydrogen and sulphur atoms.