55 results for "White dwarfs"

Posted on Jul 25, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space “We’ve seen many examples of a type of system where one white dwarf has been mostly cannibalized by its companion, but...

“This planet is roughly the size of Jupiter, but it also has a very short orbital period — a year on this planet is only 1.4 days, so it’s quickly...

Posted on Aug 16, 2022 in Astronomy, Science, Universe “The ‘big bounce’ –a cyclical expanding and contracting Universe–is more popular with general audiences than among working cosmologists,” theoretical physicist Matt...

Posted on Jul 6, 2020 in Science, Supernova The oldest planet ever detected in the universe, The PSR B1620-26 system lies around 5,600 light years away in galaxy cluster M4,...

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System “It was one of those chance discoveries,” says astrophysicist Boris Gänsicke, from the University of Warwick , about the finding...

Posted on Aug 6, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, News, Science, Space Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars that have burnt all of their...

Posted on Jul 14, 2017 in Uncategorized “In the quest for extraterrestrial biological signatures, the first stars we study should be white dwarfs,” said Avi Loeb, theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian...

Posted on Apr 12, 2016 in Uncategorized The Carnegie Institute didn't know it a year ago, but it turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from...

Posted on Apr 4, 2016 in Uncategorized   "A globular cluster might be the first place in which intelligent life is identified in our galaxy," observed Rosanne DiStefano of the...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that jets from a supermassive black hole in the M87 galaxy are causing nearby stars to erupt in explosive novae. These stellar…

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured new, detailed images of the symbiotic binary star R Aquarii, located 700 light-years from Earth. This dynamic system, composed of a red giant and…

A newly discovered Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star provides insights into Earth’s potential survival after the Sun becomes a white dwarf. Located around 4,000 light-years away, the planet endured…

Researchers have detected massive, mysterious objects floating through deep space that may be passing in front of pulsars and temporarily blocking their light pulses. These findings suggest the presence of...

A star that appeared in the sky 840 years ago and then vanished has recently shown new activity, providing astronomers with valuable insights into stellar phenomena. This "guest star," which...

An ancient star, named CWISE J124909+362116.0 (J1249+36), has been observed moving through space at an astonishing speed of nearly 600 km/second (1.3 million mph). This velocity not only surpasses the...

Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning neutron star ever recorded, designated ASKAP J1935+2148, located 16,000 light-years from Earth. Unlike typical neutron stars that can spin up to 700 times per...

Posted on Aug 3, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Consciousness, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, Science, Science News, Space News, Supernova, Technology, Universe Today’s...

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Posted on Dec 3, 2021 in Science In about 5 billion years, our Sun will expand to become a red giant, lose its hydrogen-rich envelope, and leave behind a white...

Posted on Nov 25, 2021 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Big Bang, Consciousness, Cosmology, Dark Matter, quantum physics, Science, Technology, Universe The Cosmos provided a bonanza of amazing news headlines and...

Posted on Oct 25, 2021 in Astronomy, Supernova “After having monitored tens of thousands of galaxies, we know there are other discoveries waiting to happen. Either faint objects, objects that...

In August of 2019 at the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii,  astrophysicist Tuan Do, Deputy Director of the UCLA Galactic Center Group, observed that in...

Posted on Aug 31, 2022 in Astronomy, Science Brown Dwarfs are the lowest mass products of the star formation process.  They are often called “failed stars” as they don’t have...

Hubble astronomers found something extraordinary at the heart of nearby globular cluster NGC 6397 –a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one monster, supermassive black hole. Ancient...

Posted on Dec 29, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Science (For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through New Year’s Day. we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by...

“The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged,” observed MIT theoretical physicist and cosmologist Alan Guth, who pioneered the the...

Albert Einstein described black holes as strange objects “where God divided by zero.” An international team of astrophysicists has now confirmed that black holes are a distinct “species” from neutron...

Posted on Aug 12, 2020 in Astronomy, Science In the fall of 2018, astronomers reported the detection of 39 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, with many yet to be...

Posted on Aug 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Astronomers estimate that up to 100 billion brown dwarfs make their home in our Milky Way Galaxy. Yet it remains unclear how...

If we ever have contact with extraterrestrial life from outside our solar system, it will be intelligent, which may be the only thing we have in common with them. Life...

Posted on Feb 4, 2020 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Climate Change, Cosmos, Dark Energy, Extraterrestrial Life, Milky Way Galaxy, Physics, Science “The Galaxy Report” provides summaries and links to headline...

“After ruling out a range of potential experimental errors, we started to suspect that the interaction between the white dwarf and neutron star was not as simple as had been...

“We have just raised the probability that many rocky planets are like the Earth, and there’s a very large number of rocky planets in the universe,” said Edward Young, UCLA...

Posted on Aug 6, 2019 in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Science, Space When small, dense stars called white dwarfs explode, they produce bright, short-lived flares called Type Ia supernovae. These supernovae...

LISA, the European Space Agency’s planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, scheduled for launch in 2034. will comprise three spacecraft, arranged in a triangular formation, 2.5 million kilometers apart designed to...

Posted on Jul 28, 2019 in Alien Life, Astronomy, Evolution, Extraterrestrial Life, NASA, News, Physics, Science, Space, Technology What’s buried in the data? “The team is currently focused on finding...

Posted on Jun 24, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Science A team of researchers using the Subaru Telescope identified the outermost edge of the Milky Way –the boundary of the stellar...

Posted on May 7, 2019 in Astronomy, Science Type Ia supernovae play a crucial role in helping astronomers understand the universe. Their brilliance allows them to be seen across great...

Posted on Feb 17, 2019 Evidence of a gigantic 400-light-year-wide super remnant surrounding an exploding white dwarf star in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy known as M31N 2008-12a, has been discovered...

Posted on Jan 10, 2019 Is it a monster black hole of epic size or a first-of-its-kind supernova? A brief and unusual flash spotted in the night sky on June...

Posted on Jan 22, 2019 “Although the closest habitable planet might orbit a red dwarf star, the closest one we can easily prove to be life-bearing might orbit a white...

Posted on Aug 16, 2018 “Most of the building blocks we have looked at in other planetary systems have a composition broadly similar to that of the Earth”, said Dr...

Posted on Aug 1, 2018 in Uncategorized The Kepler supernova, of which only the supernova remnant remains, took place in the constellation of Ophiuchus, in the plane of the Milky...

Posted on Mar 26, 2018 in Exoplanets, Space Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope in 2012 when he noticed something unusual:...

“In 2003 we derived the properties of a planet that was orbiting a white dwarf star and a neutron star binary near the core of the ancient globular star cluster...

Posted on Aug 30, 2016 The solar system could be thrown into disaster when the sun dies if the mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ exists, according to research from the University of...

Posted on Aug 27, 2016 Like a massive, dormant volcano, the Milky Way’s central black hole appears to be a sleeping monster. Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity...

Posted on Mar 21, 2016 in Uncategorized “We thought that Kepler could also stare at galaxies, and we would wait for something to explode,” said University of Notre Dame astrophysicist...

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Uncategorized New and unparalleled research shows that there is a particle accelerator in the center of our galaxy that is capable of accelerating protons...

Posted on May 1, 2015 in Uncategorized   "We can see a completely new component of the center of our galaxy with NuSTAR's images," said Kerstin Perez of Columbia University...