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Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...
NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...
T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system about 3,000 light years away, is usually far too dim to see with the naked eye.
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star WD 0816-310. Credit: ESO ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...
Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...
The universe is dying much sooner than scientists previously thought. But there's still going to be a long wait until then.
That "new star" will appear when the star T Coronae ... During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star. Dr. Rebekah Hounsell, an assistant research scientist ...
A Cape Cod astronomer is tracking T Coronae Borealis, a star system that's expected to go nova soon. Here’s what you need to know about this event.
Astronomers are excitedly waiting for the arrival of a new light in the sky this year that appears once every 80 years. The ...