But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the penetrating gaze of the James Webb Space Telescope, a joint ...

Astronomers have discovered an unusual blue-tinted white dwarf star with two distinct "faces": one side is hydrogen and the other side is helium, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this ...

"You shouldn't see any metals on the surface of a white dwarf unless the white dwarf is actively eating something." Astronomers may have finally solved the mystery of how superdense dead stars ...

Astronomers have found a rare white dwarf star about 104 light-years away whose core appears to be transforming into an ultra-dense “cosmic diamond.” When some stars, such as the Sun ...

Astronomers have made a first-of-its-kind discovery — a white dwarf star with two completely different faces. White dwarfs are burnt remains of dead stars. Our sun will become a white dwarf in ...

The star—named WD 0816-310—is a white dwarf star situated around 63 light years away and was spotted with a bizarre scar stretching across its surface by the European Southern Observatory's ...

If these weird episodes are the result of an orbiting white dwarf, a type of stellar remnant left behind when a star with around the mass of the sun dies, then this dead star is performing an ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A slowly cooling stellar ember called a white dwarf with a scar on its face is providing new insight into the behavior of certain "cannibal" stars at the end of ...

The discovery of a rare type of white dwarf star system provides new understanding into stellar evolution. The discovery of a rare type of white dwarf star system provides new understanding into ...

Unusual white dwarf star is made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 07 / 230719112553.htm ...

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its mysterious behavior demonstrating another strange phenomenon. The Massachusetts ...