A team of U.S. astronomers has observed a binary pair of white dwarfs where one star is actively devouring material from the ...

A rare white dwarf merger remnant emerges in ultraviolet light, revealing thin layers of hydrogen and helium stripped away during a cosmic collision. Scientists at the University of Warwick report the ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 light-years away, is still consuming the rocky remains of its former ...

Sirius is a blue giant, which burns through its fuel quickly and lives only a relatively short period of time. Yet it has a ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave as it moves through space, ...

"When we saw the results, it actually fitted this long-standing question of how these hypervelocity white dwarfs formed. It was super cool." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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Artist’s impression of the long-period transient J1634+44, revealed to be a white dwarf with a companion. Credits: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/P. Vosteen. LOFAR is a low-frequency radio astronomy array that ...