Dr. Steve Kawaler, Professor of Astronomy at Iowa State University, explores the mysteries of white dwarf stars — the ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our ...
The search for habitable planets has taken a leap forward with new space telescopes probing exoplanet atmospheres for life. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun analyzing distant worlds, ...
Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.
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"While white dwarf stars may still give off some heat from residual nuclear activity in their outer layers, they no longer exhibit nuclear fusion at their cores. For this reason, not much ...