A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected ... “It’s a really remarkable object,” said David Kaplan from the University of Wisconsin ...

That might actually be what David Kaplan and ... a dying star cold also collapse on itself to form extremely dense celestial bodies called white dwarfs. These are mostly composed of oxygen and ...

Astronomers have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf ... "Binary stars play a huge role in our universe," says lead author Steffani Grondin, a graduate student in the David A.

brief explosion from a collapsed star known as a white dwarf. T Coronae Borealis, otherwise known as the “Blaze Star,” is a binary system in the Corona Borealis that includes a dead white ...

This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers from the United States and Canada investigated a binary star system comprised of white ...

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 ...

This is what will eventually happen to most stars, so white dwarfs are common in the universe. But there is much we still have to learn about these core remnants, and recent research using the ...

It is the result of a pair of stars sharing a common outer layer during their last moments. Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and ...