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From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning mysteries.

Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, on the gas around ...

PHOENIX — Like a motorboat doing doughnuts in a lake, Betelgeuse’s companion star leaves a wake in the giant star’s atmosphere. Signs of the smaller star’s trail around the red supergiant are the best ...

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to find new clues that a companion star is to blame for Betelgeuse's strange behavior. - NASA / ESA / Elizabeth Wheatley illustration For more than ...

For more than a century, Betelgeuse has looked like a star with a secret. It swells and fades on a six-year rhythm that never quite made sense. The star, about 650 light-years away in space, is old, ...

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Space scientists have solved the mystery of why one of the brightest stars in the sky acts strangely. Red supergiant Betelgeuse has been found to have a newly discovered companion star, Siwarha, that ...

Andrea Dupree presented findings titled “Discovery of the Wake Caused by Siwarha — the Betelgeuse Companion” at the 247th American Astronomical Society meeting in January. While previously believed to ...

Star Wars is one of the most popular science fiction franchises for a reason. Millions of fans fell hard for the original storyline about Luke Skywalker discovering he was an unlikely hero in the ...

The final frontier is mythic, so naturally, the Star Trek canon is also subject to widespread myth. Somewhere along the line over the past 60 years, Trek has picked up a few so-called “facts” which ...