Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured detailed images of gas and dust shaped by a dying star in the Helix Nebula, ...
Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...
The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...
NASA’s IXPE has peered into a nearby white dwarf system, revealing towering X-ray emitting gas columns and hidden stellar ...
Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...
Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...
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NASA's IXPE successfully studies a distant white dwarf star for the first time in history
The breakthrough study made use of IXPE's unique X-ray polarization feature.
White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like our Sun. NASA/R. Ciardullo (PSU)/H. Bond (STScI) The Sun will someday die. This will happen when ...
How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...
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