Tag: white dwarf

This nova was so unusually fast, it was like someone flicked a flashlight on and off.

Space is full of surprises.

Astronomers have captured stellar winds emitted by aging stars in unprecedented detail.

The surviving fragments of planet orbiting a white dwarf have been found by a team of astronomers.

Polish astronomers have captured an incredibly rare event from start to finish: a white dwarf going nova.

Every two minutes, this pulsing star lights up the entire star system.

A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into ...

Pulsars and black holes, two of the most enigmatic celestial bodies in the Universe may actually hold the key to ...

Supernovae are highly energetic events caused by the explosion of stars that are at times so bright they can outshine ...

Though hundreds of potentially life harboring exoplanets have been discovered thus far, until the James Webb Space Telescope becomes operational, ...

Supernovae are one of the most energetic and brightest events in the cosmos, often so powerful they outshine whole galaxies. ...

Astronomers usually classify stellar objects by a spectra going from hotter to cooler, using the letters O, B, A, F, ...

A supernova is a stellar explosion of cosmic proportions, that often can outshine the entire galaxy it is located in, ...

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We have another piece of evidence which goes to show that we fail to understand numerous things about our universe. ...