This Star Is Being Eaten Alive—and Its Explosive Death Will Be Visible in Broad Daylight
A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted…
Could Alien Worlds Thrive Around Dead Stars?
White dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like…
Hubble Finds Remnant of White Dwarf Merger 130 Light-Years Away
White dwarfs are the dense cores left behind when stars exhaust their fuel and collapse. They are Earth-sized…
Unexplainable radio signal defying laws of universe has no clear source. ‘It is a unicorn’
Scientists are baffled by a strange radio signal picked up by the most advanced radio telescopes that defies…
How stars die: White dwarfs, neutron stars and supernovae | Technology News
The stars in the sky seem to shine forever, but they too are subject to lifespans determined by…
Objects in Our Universe Evaporate Faster than Thought, Scientists Say
In a 2023 paper, Professor Heino Falcke and his colleagues at Radboud University showed that not only black…