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In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique…
This artist's concept shows a white dwarf surrounded by a large debris disk. Debris from pieces of a captured, Pluto-like…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic rarity: an ultra-massive white dwarf star resulting from a white dwarf…
This is an illustration of a white dwarf star merging into a red giant star. A bow shock forms as…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s view of planetary nebula NGC 6072 in the near-infrared shows a complex scene of multiple…
The mid-infrared view of planetary nebula NGC 6072 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows expanding circular shells around the…
This image of NGC 6072, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), shows compass arrows, scale bar,…
Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of glowing gas…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to…
