Teardrop Star Shows Unusual Sighting of Stellar Spiraling to Their Doom

Medicine & Technology Jul 13, 2021

Astronomers have recently made an unusual sighting of a pair of stellar spiraling to their doom by identifying the revealing signs of a teardrop-shaped star.

Crusts from Planets Similar to Earth Discovered in ‘Dying’ Stars

Feb 15, 2021

Fragments of planets with crusts akin to Earth have recently been discovered in the atmospheres of four white dwarf stars nearby by astronomers at the University of Warwick.

Study Explains the Reason for Two White Dwarfs’ Collision

Jan 22, 2021

White dwarfs, not our typical kind of star, use an effect identified as "quantum degeneracy." The Quantum nature of electrons means that no two electrons can have a similar quantum state.

Astronomers Discover an ‘Unusual’ Star, a Celestial Occurrence They’ve Never Seen Before

Jan 06, 2021

A new study describes a possible new kind of star in an occurrence usually linked to destruction, instead of a creation or also known in the field of astronomy as "the merger of two white dwarfs."