In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

Scientists found 13 heavy chemical elements polluting the atmosphere of the star named LSPM J0207+3331, which is located ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

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 ...

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

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Old binary star systems may contain stars that are even hotter than scientists previously believed. White dwarfs are the dense, compact remains left behind when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, a ...

Using NASA's Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations of a classical nova ...