A Distant White Dwarf Is Eating a Jupiter-Sized Planet for Lunch
About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...
Hubble spies a spiral in the constellation Hydra
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years ...
Volunteers achieve 200,000 galaxy classifications in citizen scientist project
A "classification" is when a volunteer or citizen scientist finishes marking up or sorting one image or other piece of data.
Webb telescope zooms in on object free-flying through the galaxy
Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...
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Astronomers Discover a Rare Magnetic White Dwarf System That Could Become a Future Gravitational Wave Source
A team of astronomers has identified a new polar cataclysmic variable, a rare type of binary star system featuring a highly ...
X-ray Signal from Helix Nebula Suggests Planet Was Destroyed by White Dwarf
Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...