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See The Remains Of An Exploded White Dwarf Star That Was First Seen In The Year 185
C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...
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White Dwarfs
The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...
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Astronomers Discover Pair of Super-Rare 'Two-Faced' Stars
Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. Stock image: An illustration of a white dwarf star in space. iStock / Getty Images Plus These unique white dwarfs exhibit different ...
Cataclysmic variable ASASSN–14dx contains a massive pulsating white dwarf, observations find
An international team of astronomers has performed optical photometric, polarimetric and spectroscopic observations of a ...