Using data from Gaia space telescopes, scientists discovered a white dwarf star gravitationally tied up with a system of three stars, named HD 190412. New observations of the white dwarf suggest ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

The white dwarf, or dead star, in question is the compact companion of the star HD 49798, which is located around 1,700 light-years away from Earth with a mass around 1.5 times that of the sun.

Researchers suspect the bursts may result from colliding stars or a collapsing white dwarf. The Canadian Hydrogen ... has captured groundbreaking images of Westerlund 1, a supermassive star ...

including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a white dwarf star in the middle. Built by Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, California, the Hubble Space Telescope ...

In the year 185 C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science ... about 8000 light-years away. Credit: Images and Videos: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE ...

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Spectacular new images ... star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in the Taurus constellation about 1,500 light-years from Earth, NASA said in a news release. It is a white ...

Image The microlensing event showing the white dwarf, as indicated by the perpendicular white lines. Researchers captured images of the star years before the event (a), shortly after peak ...

Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 ...