Could habitable planets orbiting white dwarfs retain their oceans? Maybe
Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations ...
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Artist's concept of white dwarf being stripped of matter (IMAGE)
In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers ...
Astronomers Discover Unusual X-Ray Oscillations From a Black Hole 100 Million Light-Years Away
According to the research shared at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, the ...
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Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here's how.
Confirming a long-held theoretical prediction, a survey of 26,000 white dwarfs found that the hotter they are, the more bloated are their outer layers. White dwarfs are giving up more of their ...
Unusual binary system hosts a massive fast-spinning white dwarf
In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798/RX J0648.0–4418.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs There has never been anything in the theatre quite like Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," seven reels of animated cartoon in Technicolor, unfolding ...
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‘Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs’ Debuts In 1937: A Movie Flashback
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho...today we celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the animated Walt Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Adapted from the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale ...
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Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)
The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 ...