Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...
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A Massive New Survey of the Nearest Stars Just Revealed the Best Spots in the Galaxy to Look for Alien Life
The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...
Astronomers report the discovery of a new binary system, designated LAMOST J065816.72+094343.1. The newfound binary consists ...
Though the characteristics of K-type stars make them favourable targets in the study of habitability, they haven't received ...
Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the ...
NASA’s IXPE has peered into a nearby white dwarf system, revealing towering X-ray emitting gas columns and hidden stellar ...
How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...
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NASA's IXPE successfully studies a distant white dwarf star for the first time in history
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to NASA, involved using X-ray polarization—a feature unique to IXPE—to ...
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