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According to new analysis, rocky planets found in other systems are much more diverse than previously thought. An astronomer named Siyi Xu from NSF’s NOIRLab and a geologist named Keith Putirka from California State University, Fresno, focused on rocky worlds that orbit nearby stars as well as “polluted” white dwarfs’ chemical compositions. Polluted white dwarfs... Read more »
In the year 1980 the editors of the UK gaming magazine White Dwarf (formerly the Owl and Weasel gaming fanzine), two adherents of the new Dungeons &...
Astronomers have witnessed a white dwarf abruptly “switching on and off” in a first-of-its-kind discovery. The research team, which was led by Durham University, UK, made the observation by using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). When a star burns off all of its hydrogen, what remains is a white dwarf that is typically the... Read more »