Items tagged with white dwarf
Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, rainbow-like shock wave surrounding a dead star that technically should not exist.
The object, a white dwarf designated...
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Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, revealed a white...
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Astronomers have discovered a rare type of red dwarf star system, only the second of its kind to have been found. The discovery will help provide astronomers and scientists with a better understanding of stellar evolution.
Researchers...
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