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The utterly beautiful destruction of a planet: Space photo of the day
This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...
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Jaw-dropping NASA image reveals a dying star at the heart of the Helix Nebula — and it may have just murdered a planet
A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of ...
Image: X-ray clues reveal a star that may have destroyed a planet
This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...
The Helix Nebula May Actually Be The Real 'Death Star' - Here's Why
Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...
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When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
Two Dead Stars Found Just 150 Light Years Away Will Explode 10x Brighter Than the Moon
A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...
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White dwarf stars could host life-supporting planets, study finds
The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun analyzing distant worlds, ...
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A nebula’s X-ray glow may come from a destroyed giant planet
Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.