Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...
In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still ...
What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...
Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...
In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...
Another person shared their own encounter, "I've been there before! I was shocked when a dog came running towards us when we ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...
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What's a white dwarf star

A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...
The tides are changing for white dwarfs Old stars in binary systems may be even hotter than previously thought. (Nanowerk News) White dwarfs are the compact remnants ...