Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), Chilean astronomers have observed a cataclysmic variable known as V1425 Aql. As a result, they have found that this system hosts an arc-shaped nova shell.

The farthest the minute hand has been pushed back from the cataclysmic midnight hour was 17 minutes in 1991, after the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty was revived and then-President George H.W ...