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FOX Weather on MSN: NASA’s Hubble Telescope spots white dwarf consuming Pluto-like feature

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space experts say the discovery provides new insights into how planetary systems ...

In exoplanetary science, white dwarfs are usually only an afterthought. Most extrasolar planet hunters are too busy looking for an Earth 2.0 to give these hyper-dense stellar remnants much ...

Phys.org: A 'teenage' white dwarf pulsar may be the missing link among magnetic stars

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A 'teenage' white dwarf pulsar may be the missing link among magnetic stars

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Yahoo: Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs

Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs

Science Daily: Dead stars aren’t so dead after all: The hidden force inflating white dwarfs

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Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory predicts. Researchers found that powerful tidal forces between them generate enough heat to inflate their sizes and ...

Dead stars aren’t so dead after all: The hidden force inflating white dwarfs

Science Daily: This rare white dwarf looks normal, until Hubble shows its explosive secret

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An international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic rarity: an ultra-massive white dwarf star resulting from a white dwarf merging with another star, rather than through the evolution of a ...

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This rare white dwarf looks normal, until Hubble shows its explosive secret

A rare white dwarf merger remnant emerges in ultraviolet light, revealing thin layers of hydrogen and helium stripped away during a cosmic collision. Scientists at the University of Warwick report the ...