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Hubble Finds Dead Stars “Polluted” With Planetary Debris
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white dwarf stars are being p… more →
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Hubble Finds Dead Stars "Polluted" With Planetary Debris
wrote 1 week ago: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the … more →
Looking For Life By The Light Of Dying Stars
wrote 3 weeks ago: Because it has no source of energy, a dead star — known as a white dwarf — will eventually cool down … more →
General relativity holds up under extreme gravity test
wrote 3 weeks ago: The general theory of relativity is the reigning champion of gravitational theories: it’s with … more →
Bosons and Fermions III – What difference do they make?
wrote 1 month ago: Alright, I’m ready to lay bosons and fermions aside for a little bit, but before I do, I definitely … more →
Gravity-Bending Find Leads To Kepler Meeting Einstein
wrote 1 month ago: Artist’s concept. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Kepler space telescope has witne … more →
Death of a white dwarf, 10 billion years later
wrote 1 month ago: White dwarfs are the remnants of the cores of stars like our Sun. They have the mass of a star packe … more →
Baby boom-ers could be a new type of white dwarf supernova
wrote 1 month ago: White dwarf supernovas—more officially known as type Ia supernovas—are important to cosmologists bec … more →
Supernovas and Marvin the Martian
wrote 1 month ago: Supernovas are some of the most violent phenomena in the cosmos, but we’re in no immediate dan … more →
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
wrote 2 months ago: Originally it was proposed, based on the spectral types, that young stars are hot, very bright, and … more →
Living planets in a stellar graveyard
wrote 2 months ago: When our Sun runs out of nuclear fuel, it will shed its outer layers, while what’s left of the … more →
Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars
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wrote 2 months ago: A new study finds that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a habitable planet orbiting a whi … more →
Farthest Supernova Yet!
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wrote 3 months ago: English: Diagram showing accretion by a binary white dwarf star, leading to a type 1a supernova (Pho … more →
How White Dwarfs Mimic Black Holes
wrote 4 months ago: The Southampton Physics and Astronomy team are part of a global collaboration – with colleagues in T … more →
Can Life Emerge On Planets Around Cooling Stars?
wrote 5 months ago: Astronomers find planets in strange places and wonder if they might support life. One such place wou … more →
Astronomers Pin Down Origins Of “Mile Markers” For Expansion Of Universe
wrote 5 months ago: A study using a unique new instrument on the world’s largest optical telescope has revealed the like … more →
Rapidly Rotating White Dwarf Stars Can Solve The Missing Companion Problem For Type IA Supernovae
wrote 8 months ago: The research group of Izumi Hachisu (The University of Tokyo), Mariko Kato (Keio University) and Ken … more →
Bring the beat back 009
wrote 8 months ago: This morning, while I was experiencing some rapid-eye movement, someone in my dream described hersel … more →
What are White Dwarfs?
wrote 10 months ago: White Dwarf White dwarfs are the bare cores of low-mass stars such as the Sun. A low-mass Main Seque … more →
Little Star...
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wrote 10 months ago: This is the second article, following Twinkle Twinkle… (click here for that post). Welcome bac … more →
