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Astronomers have spotted a two-faced, white dwarf star that appears to be made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.

Janus the Star

"When I show the observations to people, they are blown away."

Bizarre Two-Faced Star Seems to Be Different on Each Side

A white dwarf that's about 104 light years away is slowly crystallizing, a process that could take a quadrillion years.

Shine like a Diamond

Talk about bling!

Scientists Spot Star Transforming Into Colossal Cosmic Diamond

Only some 90 light years away lurks a graveyard of destroyed planets orbitting a white dwarf. And it may be one of the oldest solar systems in the universe.

Solar Cemetery

"We're finding the oldest stellar remnants in the Milky Way that are polluted by once Earth-like planets."

Astronomers Find Wreckage of Destroyed Solar System Right Near Our Own

Astrophysicists just uncovered why some dying stars' supernovae appear to lack high-energy gamma ray bursts. A protective cocoon has been blocking them.

Ka-Boom

The universe may be even more brutal than we thought.

New Paper: Space Is Full of Naturally Occurring Atomic Bombs

After two white dwarf stars managed to merge without destroying each other, scientists say they've observed a brand new type of star.

New Star Dropped

In X-Ray, it glows bright green.

An Unusual Merger Seems to Have Created a New Type of Star

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just spotted a brief, but extremely intense event: a star self-detonating star some 70 million light-years away.

Now Sashay Away

Watch it here.

Hubble Just Watched a Star Explode In a Massive Supernova

For the first time, a team of astronomers has detected a massive planet orbiting a white dwarf at a very close distance, circling it every 34 hours.

Still Living With the Parents

It's not at all what they expected to find.

Astronomers Detect First-Ever Planet Closely Orbiting a White Dwarf

A white dwarf star from a binary star system was just sent hurtling through the Milky Way at 559,000 mph after experiencing a "partial supernova."

Yeet!

The explosion yeeted it through the galaxy at more than half a million miles per hour.

This Star Appears to Have Survived a Supernova

In 2015, a international team of astronomers watched a white dwarf star gobbling up the planets in its very own system like a mother devouring its young.

Planet Eater

A new field of study is born: "Necroplanetology."

Star Blasts Own Planets Into Shattered Corpses, Devours Remains

Two stars that make up the binary system called V Sagittae some 1,100 light years away are going to collide in an enormous explosion around 2083.

Big Star Boom

It'll be the brightest stellar object in the night sky.

These Two Stars Will Collide in a Spectacular Explosion

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the extremely dense remains of an exploded dead star.

Zombie Planets

"Such a system has never been seen before."

Scientists Find Dead Star Roasting Its Giant Exoplanet

Astronomers found an exoplanet that should've been swallowed by its Sun during the red giant evolutionary stage — but they could still pinpoint its location.

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