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About 8,150 light-years from Earth, a white dwarf star named Gaia22ayj has intrigued astronomers. Its unusual behavior, ...
The 'Goldilocks Zones' of the TRAPPIST-1 system and our own solar system. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Whyte and colleagues wanted to know if a planet orbiting a white dwarf in a constricting ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars – β€œdead” remnants and "living" stars – in young star clusters.