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NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a white dwarf star consuming the remnants of a Pluto-like object - a scenario that may predict what will happen to planets in our own ...

Repeating radio signals lead UMW astronomers to a rare binary white dwarf star system

Astronomers traced a mysterious radio signal repeating about every 80 minutes to a compact system containing a magnetized white dwarf and a low-mass companion. Matching radio, optical andX-ray ...
Yahoo Finance

Webb space telescope ready for White House closeup

WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden, breaking from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, was expected on Monday to release the first full-color image being made ...
Gizmodo

Hubble Telescope Directly Measures a White Dwarf Mass for the First Time

Astronomers just directly measured the mass of a lone white dwarf using the Hubble Space Telescope for the first time. The dwarf—the core remnant of a star—is named LAWD 37, and it burned out about a ...
Chicago Tribune

VU researchers to study white dwarf stars with the Hubble telescope

Valparaiso University Professor of Physics and Astronomy Todd Hillwig, Ph.D., is the sole American researcher involved in an international project using the Hubble Space Telescope to learn more about ...
The Hill

Webb telescope image included in White House Advent calendar

A James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant will be included in the White House’s first-ever Advent calendar. In a Sunday news release, NASA said that the ...