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The Helix Nebula, located 650 light-years from Earth, has baffled scientists for decades. The planetary nebula was created by ...
It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...
The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...
A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. NASA/Goddard Space ... found near the Milky Way's black hole: An 'amazing' discovery ...
Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/H ... a white dwarf cools until it becomes a black dwarf, which emits no energy. Because the universe's oldest stars are only 10 billion to 20 billion years old ...
Nova explosions occur in semi-detached binary systems containing a cool late-type star and a white dwarf. "A hot white ... After its 2020 eruption, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory had ...
The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in the Taurus constellation about 1,500 light-years from Earth, NASA said in a news release. It is a white dwarf star that was once ...