A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.
"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...
Because we are overdue a once-in-a-lifetime stellar event that will transfix backyard stargazers and professional astronomers ...
Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...