Researchers at the University of Warwick and the University of Colorado Boulder have directly observed, for the first time, ...

"It's a reminder that even in our own cosmic neighborhood, we can still find surprises if we look in the right way, at the ...

Astronomers have discovered four previously unseen white dwarfs concealed in nearby binary star systems, revealing that even ...

"Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directly." ...

Four nearby white dwarf stars have been discovered hiding in plain sight beside brighter red dwarf companions. Hubble's ultraviolet observations finally revealed the long-hidden stellar remnants, ...

What can nearby white dwarfs teach astronomers about star populations? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly ...

ASKAP J1745-5051 did not look like an easy answer to anything. It flashed radio waves every 1.4 hours, then went quiet for stretches. Then it lit up again with a pattern astronomers had trouble ...

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave as it moves through space, ...