White dwarf
A Nearby White Dwarf Might be About to Collapse Into a Neutron Star
A white dwarf star has been found that's more massive than our Sun, but about the same size as our…
How can White Dwarfs Produce Such Powerful Magnetic Fields?
White dwarfs have some surprisingly strong magnetic fields, and one team of astronomers may have finally found the reason why.…
White Dwarf Atmospheres Might Contain the Pulverized Crusts of Their Dead Planets
Astronomers have developed a new technique to search for exoplanets - by looking for their crushed up bones in the…
Strange Green Star is the Result of a Merger Between two White Dwarfs
Chandrasekhar found there is an upper limit for the mass of a white dwarf, but some white dwarfs can break…
Is There a way to Detect Strange Quark Stars, Even Though They Look Almost Exactly Like White Dwarfs?
If quark matter stars exist, they could look like white dwarfs that are unusually small.
James Webb Will Look for Signs of Life on Planets Orbiting Dead Stars
Can the galaxy's dead stars help us in our search for life? A group of researchers from Cornell University thinks…
Scientists Recreate the Density of a White Dwarf in the Lab
Inside a white dwarf, atoms are squeezed almost to the point of collape. Now we've created this matter in a…
A Star had a Partial Supernova and Kicked Itself Into a High-Speed Journey Across the Milky Way
Supernovae are some of the most powerful events in the Universe. They're extremely energetic, luminous explosions that can light up…
Rocky Planets Orbiting White Dwarf Stars Could be the Perfect Places to Search for Life
Some very powerful telescopes will see first light in the near future. One of them is the long-awaited James Webb…
Astronomers Watched a Star System Die
About 570 light years from Earth lies WD 1145+017, a white dwarf star. In many respects it's a typical white…