Two Dead Stars Are Racing Around Each Other Every 6.2 Minutes
Artistic impression of the double white dwarf binary eRASSU J0608. Credit: Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics A…
Biggest Supernova Dataset Yet Challenges Dark Energy Theory
Type Ia supernovae are powerful stellar explosions that occur when a white dwarf is pushed into a thermonuclear…
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope solves the mystery of a planet that survived its Sun’s death |
A white dwarf is usually thought of as the quiet remnant left behind after a star has exhausted…
Scientists locate source of mysterious radio signals after 20 year search: A vampire star and its victim
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Astronomers Caught a Record-Breaking Stellar Explosion on Camera and It Looks Nothing Like They Expected
An artistic impression of Nova V1674 Herculis. Credit: CHARA Array Astronomers pictured novae—the violent explosions that occur on…
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…
This Star Is Being Eaten Alive—and Its Explosive Death Will Be Visible in Broad Daylight
A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted…
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…
Hubble Finds Remnant of White Dwarf Merger 130 Light-Years Away
White dwarfs are the dense cores left behind when stars exhaust their fuel and collapse. They are Earth-sized…
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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