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Astronomers still don't quite understand the mysteries of Teleios.
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Astronomers Baffled by a Suspicious, Perfectly Round Sphere in Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have discovered that a white dwarf star bears a never before seen metal "scar" near one of its magnetic poles.
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Dead Star Has Visible Scar After Devouring Chunk of Planet

By Frank Landymore

James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars
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James Webb Spots Two Planets Solemnly Orbiting Dead Stars

By Victor Tangermann

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.
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Bad News! A Rogue Star Will Not Crash Into Us, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have spotted a two-faced, white dwarf star that appears to be made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.
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Bizarre Two-Faced Star Seems to Be Different on Each Side

By Frank Landymore

A white dwarf that's about 104 light years away is slowly crystallizing, a process that could take a quadrillion years.
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Scientists Spot Star Transforming Into Colossal Cosmic Diamond

By Sharon Adarlo

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.
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Astronomers Find Wreckage of Destroyed Solar System Right Near Our Own

By Frank Landymore

Astrophysicists just uncovered why some dying stars' supernovae appear to lack high-energy gamma ray bursts. A protective cocoon has been blocking them.
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New Paper: Space Is Full of Naturally Occurring Atomic Bombs

By Tony Ho Tran

After two white dwarf stars managed to merge without destroying each other, scientists say they've observed a brand new type of star.
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An Unusual Merger Seems to Have Created a New Type of Star

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just spotted a brief, but extremely intense event: a star self-detonating star some 70 million light-years away.
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Hubble Just Watched a Star Explode In a Massive Supernova

By Victor Tangermann

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.
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Astronomers Detect First-Ever Planet Closely Orbiting a White Dwarf

By Victor Tangermann

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."
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This Star Appears to Have Survived a Supernova

By Victor Tangermann

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.
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Star Blasts Own Planets Into Shattered Corpses, Devours Remains

By Victor Tangermann

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.
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These Two Stars Will Collide in a Spectacular Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the extremely dense remains of an exploded dead star.
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Scientists Find Dead Star Roasting Its Giant Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

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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Did This Planet Survive Getting Swallowed By Its Sun?

By Victor Tangermann