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You’re Looking at an Actual Image of a White Dwarf Feeding on Material from a Larger Red Giant, 650 Light Years from Earth.

The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding…

6 years ago

Carnival of Space #513

Welcome, come in to the 513th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers…

7 years ago


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