The author blames the practice of "crape murder," or cutting back all branches annually, for the weak growth. Proper pruning, ...

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May I suggest a mixture of dwarf red pentas, low-growing white flowered zinnias and blue spreading torenia. If you get it started now all should be in full bloom by the Fourth of July.

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Not to be confused with crepe myrtle, the common myrtle and other varieties typically used in the bonsai art form, myrtles are evergreen shrubs and small trees that may grow up to 25 feet in height ...

Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It's part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs ...

More Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar remnants, in the form of a "teenage vampire" white dwarf. This vampire ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Inset: an illustration of a white dwarf. Main top: Gaia22ayj seen in X-rays and visible light ...

The observed birth rate of such heavy white dwarf pairs is estimated at 6.0 × 10^-4 per year. However, the number of type 1a supernovae these systems cause is only about 4.4 × 10^-5 per year.