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Life after stellar death? How life could arise on planets orbiting white dwarfs
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days agoStellar death need not be the end for orbiting planets, which could see their ice melt as they move...
Weekly Horoscope: June 24 - June 30
Vice· 14 hours agoThis week, the Sun forms a tense square with Neptune under Cancer and Aries, respectively. While people with these Sun, Moon, or Ascendant placements...
Pluto isn’t a planet — but it gives us clues for how the solar system formed
NPR· 3 days agoThen, in the summer of 2006, Pluto was demoted. Part two of Short Wave's series Space Camp looks into this demotion from "planet" to "dwarf planet ...
The Sky This Week from June 21 to 28: Embrace June’s Strawberry Moon
Astronomy Magazine· 4 days agoThe Moon covers dwarf planet Ceres, Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) hangs around after dark, and...
This Is Racing Through Our Galaxy at Top Speed
newser· 5 days ago"In this kind of supernova, the white dwarf is completely destroyed, so its companion is released and flies off at whatever orbital speed it was...
Gaia space telescope helps astronomers image hidden objects around bright stars
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA brown dwarf orbits a bright star in this illustration. | Credit: ESA Scientists have directly...
NASA’s Planet Hunter’s Rare Glimpse at Two Black Holes in a Faraway Galaxy
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoNASA’s TESS satellite helped confirm the theory of two black holes in galaxy OJ 287 in 2021, enhancing our knowledge of black holes and their behaviors. Several international research groups ...
Starburst Spectacle: Hubble’s Rare Glimpse at Star Formation in a Distant Galaxy’s Core
SciTechDaily· 21 hours agoThis newly released Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the blue compact dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, as...
Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?
New Scientist· 6 days agoNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It is currently about 8 billion kilometres from the sun, and by the time you finish reading this story ...
More than meets the eye - Nature Astronomy
Nature· 5 days agoX-ray binaries (XRBs) are systems where material is being accreted onto a compact object (white dwarf/neutron star/stellar-mass black hole) from a donor star, and as such ...
