The stars are not fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancients thought. For a while, a star appears where there was none before, and then …
If you were attacked by a fierce vampire star or were in danger of falling into two black black holes, you would probably run too! …
After a thermonuclear explosion in a binary star system about 3,400 light years away has been witnessed by the Hubble Space Telescope. HM Sagittae, or …
A rare burst of light from a dead star is likely to be visible to humans on World this summer in a celestial but potentially …
Astronomers may have finally solved the mystery of how dead superblack stars known as white dwarfs keep their heavy metal shells fresh – by cannibalizing …
A binary star system in the constellation Corona Borealis consists of a white dwarf that pulls material from a neighboring red giant, resulting in extremely …
Drops of debris from a disturbed planet are scattered irregularly on a long and eccentric orbit around the white dwarf -Credit: Dr Mark Garlick/University of …
The first data from a new telescope array is in. The Condor Array has revealed a glimpse of a distant dwarf nova – a sight …
A dead star that eats its own planets is like a raging cosmic zombie destroyed by planetary debris. The imprintable metal scar sits on the …
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unknown source of cosmic dust. Why is this dust important to track? Well, these particles essentially act as building blocks …
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