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The discovery could finally explain how a type of stellar remnant called extremely low mass white dwarfs form, something that has puzzled scientists for decades.
A new type of binary star theorized about for years has finally been observed, filling in an important stellar missing link.
Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for November 3rd, 2021. Today is a national holiday in Japan, but while others are decorating their... *checks notes* Culture Day Trees, I am here bringing you the latest games and sales that hit the Nintendo eShop today.
Stars in binary systems can not only survive a supernova, but eventually go back to what they were as if nothing ever happened.
Zoom In An artist’s map of the Milky Way galaxy, with a circle 3,000 light years in radius centered on the Sun. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Robert Hurt (SSC-Caltech) / Phil Plait (annotation) Gaia is a European Space Agency mission that orbits the Sun in a stable position about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Its mission is to measure the positions, motions, colors, and other characteristics of over nearly two billion stars in the galaxy. That's it. It doesn't specify what kind of star to look at (other than it has to be bright enough to see) or drill down to answer a specific question...