Based on time-series photometry from three different telescopes, an international team of astronomers has performed a ...

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Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly magnetized dead star like a neutron or white dwarf, Curtin University’s ...

WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily ...

Could white dwarf stars host habitable exoplanets that might support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory ...

The finale of a star’s life has enthralled scientists for years, yet questions continue to surround the explosions of white dwarf stars — the most common path that stars take during the later stages ...

Brown dwarf stars, white dwarf stars, and even neutron stars aren’t actually stars, while red dwarf stars, yellow dwarfs (like our Sun), and all giant stars do turn out to be stars. Here’s ...

An illustration shows a white dwarf orbiting a main sequence star in a binary system. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) New research has shed doubt upon the nature of a distant "dead star ...

Scientists behind the research think this stellar corpse is actually a monster-sized white dwarf. The discovery raises the question of how the binary's "living" star has managed to survive in ...

"You shouldn't see any metals on the surface of a white dwarf unless the white dwarf is actively eating something." Astronomers may have finally solved the mystery of how superdense dead stars ...