Remnants of planetary crust disintegrating under the tidal forces around a cool white dwarf. Material in the disc becomes vapourised close to the central star…
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Artist’s interpretation of the explosion of a recurrent nova, RS Ophiuchi. This is a binary star in the constellation of Ophiuchus and is approximately 5,000…
WD 1856 b, a potential planet the size of Jupiter, orbits its dim white dwarf star every 36 hours and is about seven times larger.…
For just the second time ever, astrophysicists have spotted a spectacular flash of ultraviolet (UV) light accompanying a white dwarf explosion. An extremely rare type…
Bird’s eye view of a gravity crystal using mm-sized aluminum spheres placed on a conductive bowl-shaped surface. High voltage from a Van de Graaff generator…
Illustration of a white dwarf, the dead remnant of a star like our Sun, with a crystallised, solid core. White dwarfs are the remains of…
Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A…