White dwarfs are the compact remnants of stars that have stopped nuclear burning, a fate that will eventually befall our sun.

Zinia Khattar of San Diego, the second Fellow, was awarded a $50,000 science scholarship. “Being named a Davidson Fellow is a very welcome surprise,” Smith said. “I am thankful to see how much my ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

Astronomers from Australia and Serbia have performed multi-band photometric observations of a binary star known as V717 ...

Artist's impression of a red dwarf (left) and a white dwarf (center) orbiting each other. The stars’ orbit is so tight that their magnetic fields interact, causing pulses of radio emission every two ...

White dwarf stars represent the evolutionary endpoints of medium- and low-mass stars, comprising the dense, electron-degenerate cores left after nuclear fuel exhaustion. In binary systems, ...

The rare nova explosion—once it happens—will be so bright that you'll be able to spot it without a telescope. reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night ...

India's first multi-wavelength astronomy satellite -- has completed 10 years of science observation, said the Indian Space Research Organisation.

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A Caltech astrophysicist and an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts ...