Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Sometime between May and September, a white dwarf is expected to go thermonuclear.
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Read more: Move Over Eclipse, a New Celestial Wonder Is Set to Take Center StageT Coronae Borealis, a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth, is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. And if the recurring nova follows its usual pattern, we can expect to see a new, albeit temporary, star appearing in our night sky…
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James Webb photographs two potential exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs
Read more: James Webb photographs two potential exoplanets orbiting white dwarfsThe James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged two potential exoplanets orbiting around small, cold cores of dead stars called white dwarfs.
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Webb Telescope Finds What May Be a Glowing Aurora on a Failed Star
Read more: Webb Telescope Finds What May Be a Glowing Aurora on a Failed StarThe Webb Space Telescope has spotted something weird: a brown dwarf with what appear to be aurorae, what we Earthlings sometimes call the Northern Lights. What makes the observation particularly surprising is that the brown dwarf doesn’t have a nearby …
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Astronomers Spot a Massive Brown Dwarf Hotter Than the Sun
Read more: Astronomers Spot a Massive Brown Dwarf Hotter Than the SunAstronomers recently spotted one of the most massive brown dwarfs known, an object between 75 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter with a beyond-scalding dayside temperature of 8,000 K (13,940° Fahrenheit.)Read more…
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Hubble measures the mass of a lonely dead star for the first time
Read more: Hubble measures the mass of a lonely dead star for the first timeRecent research using the Hubble Space Telescope has measured the mass of a lone white dwarf for the first time.
