Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...
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'One of those rare 'wow' moments': Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that 'shouldn't be there'
A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...
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Mystery shockwave around dead star stuns astronomers: 'We found something never seen before and entirely unexpected.'
"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...
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Carina Nebula shines with white-blue stars | Space photo of the day for Jan. 5, 2026
Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...
The shockwave - more specifically a bow shock - caused by the white dwarf was observed using the European Southern ...
Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.
A nearby white dwarf is carving a colourful shockwave through space, puzzling astronomers and raising new questions about how ...
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 ...
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This Mysterious Gas Cloud Spotted Around a Dead Star Is Beautiful—but Astronomers Say It Shouldn’t Be There
The stellar corpse is spewing star stuff, which is heating and compressing surrounding gas, resulting in a multicolored ...
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Astronomers spot an 'impossible' shock wave around a dead star system
Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...
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