NASA has taken a surprising new look at a white dwarf star called EX Hydrae, revealing details that astronomers have never ...
NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...
How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...
NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...
Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...
Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...
White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like our Sun. NASA/R. Ciardullo (PSU)/H. Bond (STScI) The Sun will someday die. This will happen when ...
Scientists have discovered a “greedy” white dwarf star that is “going thermonuclear” as it devours its twin at an unprecedented rate. An international team of astronomers found that the double star, V ...
Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the hottest nova explosions ever discovered. When you purchase through links on ...