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Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...
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Doomed 'cannibal' star could soon explode in a supernova so bright it would be visible during the day

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of ...
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Data From Dead Space Telescope Shows Huge Wave Washing Over Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

A team of scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy, led by astronomer Eloisa Poggio, looked intensely at this data and found there is a great wave stirring "the motion of ...
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'It was the realization of a dream that we had chased for decades.' Powerful cosmic winds around neutron star reveal secrets of monster black holes

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...
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In another star system, a Pluto-like world survived until the bitter end

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...
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‘Dead’ Star Caught Snacking on Pluto-Like Object

Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...