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A doomed planet is being torn up by its 'zombie' white dwarf star — but astronomers don't understand why

Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...
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White dwarf star is still feasting on dead Earth-like planet 3 billion years later

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

3 billion-year-old white dwarf still consuming its planetary system challenges previous assumptions

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

JWST observations discover large debris disk around nearby M dwarf

An international team of astronomers have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a nearby M-dwarf star ...

JWST Finds a Planet That Shouldn’t Exist – and It’s Made Almost Entirely of Carbon

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...
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Astronomers spot giant hidden 'bridge' and record-breaking tail between 2 dwarf galaxies

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...
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NASA Data Uncovers Hidden Three Planets in Extreme Star System, And They’re Just Like Earth

In a breakthrough for exoplanet science, astronomers have discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting both stars in a ...
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Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope and 4 other legendary spacecraft are in October's night sky

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...