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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted evidence of a white dwarf star devouring rocky and icy ... he saw Voyager images of other worlds in our solar system for the first time.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers with the University of Warwick have released a new study that shows a white dwarf pulsar, known as J1912-4410, that includes a white dwarf star that ... (upper two images) and linear ...

Because there are other systems similar to HD 190412, including the star system that is home to the bright star Sirius, the researchers report that other crystallizing white dwarfs might be nearby ...

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 ...