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The magical beauty of the 'eyes of God'
Helix, the name of a nebula about 650 light-years from Earth, is dubbed
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See before the end of the earth
Using Hubble's telescope to study the atmospheric composition of four white dwarfs, astronomers from the University of Warwick (UK) discovered that most of the material…
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Identify the two oldest dwarfs in the universe
Mukremin Kilic and his colleagues identified two of the oldest and closest known white dwarfs ever known from the University of Oklahoma assistant professor of physics a…
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The pair of 'dancers' spin the fastest in the universe
Astronomers have found a pair of white dwarfs that take only 5.4 minutes to rotate around one another. This is the fastest pair of twirling stars that scientists have ev…
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A white dwarf will explode in the next few million years
The European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton telescope has obtained the first close-up image of a white dwarf moving around its twin star ...
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Modifications of supernova type 1a
Star explosions known as type 1a supernovae have long been used as a standard candle, their constant brightness is a way for astronomers to measure cosmic distances. and…
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White dwarf missing in planetary nebula
Let's see this as a case of the missing dwarf. A group of astronomers must perform interstellar field investigations. They had two suspects, signs of attack and assault,…
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White dwarf rips a planet
A small planet was torn into pieces and disappeared after moving too close to a white dwarf. The ill-fated planet may have been pulled towards n
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Video: The unification of two white dwarfs
This video depicts two white dwarfs known as the RX Jo8o6.3 + 1527 or J0806 that are getting closer together, at a rate of more than a million miles per hour. As their o…