Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...
Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.
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Hubble Space Telescope watches dying star chow down on a Pluto-like world filled with ice
Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...
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Icy planetesimal with high nitrogen and water content discovered in white dwarf's atmosphere
University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being ...
Scientists shocked by ‘greedy’ white dwarf star devouring its twin - V Sagittae has baffled experts since it was first discovered in 1902 ...
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Doomed 'cannibal' star could soon explode in a supernova so bright it would be visible during the day
Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white ...
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Astronomers discover White Dwarf Star consuming frozen planetesimal – Here is what research reveals
Astronomers spot a white dwarf consuming a Pluto-like icy world, uncovering volatile elements that reshape our understanding ...
The system, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, is located about 82 light-years from Earth. The two pairs—the brown dwarfs and the ...
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to ...
White dwarf stars represent the evolutionary endpoints of medium- and low-mass stars, comprising the dense, electron-degenerate cores left after nuclear fuel exhaustion. In binary systems, ...
When the two stars eventually smash into each other, the supernova explosion would be visible from Earth, even during daytime ...
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