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The two white dwarfs now orbit each other in about 14 hours ... that shouldn’t detract from the drama. Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, ...

It looks rather a lot like a battle report from an old issue of Games Workshop's in-house White Dwarf magazine some time in the early 1990s. This powerfully straightforward art style makes ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion years ...

Scientists have discovered two rare white dwarfs—which are among the dimmest stars in the universe—that feature changes in their surface composition caused by magnetic fields. This brings the ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

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A newly discovered pair of white dwarfs will both explode in a type 1a supernova when they circle too close to one another in around 23 billion years. | Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick ...