“when a white dwarf star in a binary system gathers so much matter from its partner that it compresses until it explodes.”
“The stars are like rocks in a rushing river,” Matt Povich
.
“‘Swan Nebula,’ a turbulent star-forming region located about 6,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material.”
