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The James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged two potential exoplanets orbiting around small, cold cores of dead stars called white dwarfs.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), known for its expertise in probing the depths of the Universe, this time offers a prophetic glimpse into the distant fate of our very own...

Dance Macabre NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a fascinating image of two gas giant exoplanets, not unlike the ones found in our solar system, orbiting the remains of their respective white dwarf star parents. It's an unusual discovery, considering the extreme forces involved. White dwarfs are formed after a red giant expands and […]

The Whole Earth Telescope (WET), a worldwide network of observatories coordinated by the University of Delaware, is synchronizing its lenses to provide round-the-clock coverage of a cooling star.

Astronomers are trying to figure out how an isolated brown dwarf could produce such a phenomenon.

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Artist’s impression of a white dwarf pulsar. In this binary star system, a rapidly spinning white dwarf (right) accelerates electrons

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Grab your ax, because today we’re presenting the oral history of Warhammer Records, Games Workshop’s brief but sultry affair with the heavy metal scene.

A rogue white dwarf, the stellar remnant of a star that's expended all its fuel, is headed towards our Sun — or so it appeared. When researchers calculated the runaway object's trajectory in 2022, they projected it would blow through an outer region of the solar system called the Oort cloud in approximately 29,000 years. […]