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, ...
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How can a young blue giant have a white dwarf companion star that's billions of years older?
Sirius is a blue giant, which burns through its fuel quickly and lives only a relatively short period of time. Yet it has a ...
A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist's concept released Nov. 19, 2025, to illustrate the first use of NASA's IXPE (Imaging ...
Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...
White dwarf stars as a research area encompasses the theoretical and observational study of compact stellar remnants supported by electron degeneracy pressure, focusing on their internal structure, ...
Dustin Swarm, an astrophysicist and assistant professor at the University of Iowa, recently helped capture the first X-ray view of a white dwarf star. Swarm, in collaboration with MIT, studied the ...
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