A spider stellar engine could move binary stars halfway across a galaxy
"We apply the model to candidate systems, spider pulsars, which are binary stars composed of one millisecond pulsar and a ...
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JWST Snaps Colossal Waves of Star Dust That Dwarf Our Own Solar System
Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...
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James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming dust shells zooming through space
The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.
Rings of Creation: Webb Maps the Milky Way’s Hidden Carbon Factories
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...
Webb watches carbon-rich dust shells form and expand in star system
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...
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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 ... HD 49798 is a bright blue star in the southern sky, a subdwarf of O spectral type (sdO ...
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Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space
When the wind hits the white dwarf’s magnetic field ... Artist’s impression video of the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii - YouTube We already know of a few systems like this, such ...