For just the second time ever, astrophysicists have spotted a spectacular flash of ultraviolet (UV) light accompanying a white dwarf explosion. An extremely rare type…
Scientists study how charged particles arrange themselves into crystalline patterns and apply what they learn to explore the interiors of white dwarf stars. Grab a…
Data captured by ESA’s galaxy-mapping spacecraft Gaia has revealed for the first time how white dwarfs, the dead remnants of stars like our Sun, turn…
Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A…
University of Canterbury astrophysicist Dr. Simone Scaringi has made an unexpected and exciting new discovery related to the way white dwarfs grow in space. The…
An international team of astronomers has found the first observational evidence for a contracting white dwarf. Constant high spin-up rate of a star of this…
Using the Swift Satellite Observatory, scientists reveal what was likely the most luminous white dwarf eruption ever seen. Astronomers have today announced that they have…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics identifies exomoons as a likely source of the apparent accretion of rocky material onto some white dwarf…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered white dwarf stars in the disc of the Milky Way galaxy, and measured…
Using the Keck Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal the existence of a white dwarf star whose atmosphere is rich in carbon and…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a team astronomers has found the first evidence of the remains of a comet-like object scattered around a burned-out star….
Using the Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has studied in detail for the first time the remains of a fatal interaction between…
Using the repurposed Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as it spirals around a white dwarf…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have identified the orbiting companions to five millisecond pulsars in globular…
Using Kepler data, a team of astronomers has observed a white dwarf star displaying massive arrhythmic outbursts, which broke the star’s regular pulse and significantly…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected excess infrared light around white dwarf PG 0010+280. Scientists aren’t sure where the light is coming from, but one…
By combining data from Chandra and several other telescopes, researchers think they have discovered the remains of a planet that may have been ripped apart…
A newly published study reveals that supernova remnant 3C 397 is the remains a single white dwarf that accumulated matter from a normal companion star….
