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The culprit can cause cosmic rays to bombard the Earth
Black holes can tear up a white dwarf star, creating high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos rushing towards Earth.
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What is a white dwarf?
Not the name of a star, that's the name of a star. Like humans, the planets' life is divided into three phases: young, middle-aged, old.
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Witness the supernova explosion that seems to be only in sci-fi movies
A recent observation using the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) has helped astrophysicists discover a new supernova explosion crashing into its companion star.
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For the first time, the scientific community determined the mass of a star
The researchers revealed how the gravitational pull of a white dwarf bends space and bends the light of a distant star behind it.
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Earth's tragedy when the Sun swells up to 100 times
New research by Belgian scientists shows that when the Sun swells 100 times, swallowing Mercury and Venus, life on Earth will become ashes.
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Discover a giant diamond in the universe
The astounding astronomers discovered a bright glittering object in the sky that is a diamond star
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Capture the moment when the planet exploded brightly
Scientists have recorded the moment when a supernova exploded, a rare event in the cycle that lasts from thousands to millions of years of a star.
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Every 2 minutes this star glows and the reason is unexpected
Beyond that vast universe, at the Scorpius constellation (Scorpius), 380 light years away, there is an extremely strange star. Star named AR Scorpii.
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Astronomers have 'ignored' the first evidence of this planet
Evidence of exoplanets appeared in 1917, but astronomers were unaware, even claiming that exoplanets appeared in the 1990s.
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99.99% white dwarf atmosphere is pure oxygen
Astronomers first discovered a white dwarf with an outer layer containing 99.99% oxygen.
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The 'vampires' hide in the universe
Green wandering stars are dubbed vampires in the universe because they specialize
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Dance of the dead planet signals life
A white dwarf star - the remains of the dead gold star rotate and tear the planet near it, sparking the assumption that many similar planets are moving around the dwarf.
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The rushing dance to the death of the mysterious nebula
Two white dwarfs rotate very quickly around each other in a mysterious nebula. The distance between them is so small that they will surely become a star and explode.
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Death star bends light
Space telescope Kepler and experts of the American Palomar Observatory found the super-solid white dwarf died in a binary star system.
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Strange planet death story helps bring life
When a star dies, its outer layers are gradually evaporated, leaving a hot nucleus called White dwarf - a celestial body created when stars are low and medium.