White Dwarfs
This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula’s…
A planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf at the center of a planetary nebula — the first…
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never…
NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as…
As a distant stargazer and a neighborhood watchdog, NASA's WISE/NEOWISE spacecraft has scanned the sky around us – both far…
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of…
This is an annotated Hubble Space Telescope image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, located 3,400 light-years away in the northern…
A zoom into the constellation Perseus reveals the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Also known as…
This artist's illustration shows how the gravity of a foreground white dwarf star warps space and bends the light of…
