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This dead star is still sending us radio signals
Astronomers have finally identified the source of mysterious radio waves from deep space, tracing the signals back to an ...
An Astronomer Calculated the Exact Day a Star Will Blow—and It’s This Week
When it does take place, the outburst will be brief but it will appear as a new star in the sky for a little less than a week ...
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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.
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
White dwarf and red dwarf duo emit radio pulses every two hours
An international team of astronomers led by scientists from the Netherlands has shown that a white dwarf and a red dwarf orbiting each other every two hours are emitting radio pulses. Thanks to ...
Astronomers Found a Dead Star Sending Out Mysterious Signals Like a Cosmic Beacon
A decade-long radio mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have linked repeating pulses to a white dwarf and red dwarf ...
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Entwined dwarf stars reveal their location thanks to repeated radio bursts
A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours.
Astronomers Just Traced Mysterious Radio Pulses to an Unusual Star Duo
Astronomers have finally traced mysterious radio pulses in the Milky Way to a unique cosmic duo—a red dwarf and a white dwarf ...