Based on time-series photometry from three different telescopes, an international team of astronomers has performed a ...

The 5.8-billion-year-old white dwarf—catchily dubbed "WD 1856+534"—lies just 82 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Draco. Back in 2020, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting ...

The sun will end its life as a white dwarf. As a white dwarf, it is essentially a dead star that has exhausted all of the nuclear fuel that it is capable of burning. As a white dwarf, it will ...

This is the time it takes for white dwarf stars, the most persistent celestial bodies, to decay via Hawking-like radiation. Previous studies, which did not take this effect into account ...

This second paper presents an in-depth analysis of the composition of the planetary material that has been accreted on to seven white dwarfs with circumstellar dust and gas emission discs with ...

We present observations and analyses of eight white dwarf stars (WDs) that have accreted rocky material from their surrounding planetary systems. The spectra of these helium-atmosphere WDs contain ...

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