NASA’s IXPE measures a white dwarf star for the first time
A cosmic first has been achieved. For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer…
NASA just saw inside a white dwarf system for the first time, and the view surprised scientists |
Sometimes progress in space science does not arrive with a flash. It comes quietly, through patient observation, and…
White dwarf star is still feasting on dead Earth-like planet 3 billion years later
Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located…
A supernova may soon be visible in the sky
The universe continues to hold many surprises, as is the case with this interstellar visitor present in our…
Could Alien Worlds Thrive Around Dead Stars?
White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like…
Unexplainable radio signal defying laws of universe has no clear source. ‘It is a unicorn’
Scientists are baffled by a strange radio signal picked up by the most advanced radio telescopes that defies…
‘We have a real mystery on our hands’
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