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Dead stars aren’t so dead after all: The hidden force inflating white dwarfs

Science Daily 02 Dec 2025
Some white dwarfs in rapid binary orbits are far hotter and larger than theory ...
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White dwarf magnetic field study reveals inner accretion dynamics

SpaceDaily 26 Nov 2025
The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it ...
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Scientists get a first look at the innermost region of a white dwarf system

Phys Dot Org 20 Nov 2025
Scientists get a first look at the innermost region of a white dwarf system (2025, November 20) retrieved 20 November 2025 from https.//phys.org/news/2025-11-scientists-innermost-region-white-dwarf.html.
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Scientists find old white dwarf still munching rocks

The Keene Sentinel 31 Oct 2025
In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock ... .
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Fate of Water-Rich Planets Around White Dwarfs

Universe Today 29 Oct 2025
Can water-rich exoplanets survive orbiting white dwarf stars, the latter of which are remnants ...
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Ancient White Dwarf Reveals Ongoing Planetary Consumption

SpaceDaily 24 Oct 2025
A 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star, LSPM J0207+3331, located 145 light-years from ...
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A doomed planet is being torn up by its 'zombie' white dwarf star — but ...

Space 24 Oct 2025
The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements originating from the rocky body ....
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Aging White Dwarf Still Consuming Its Planetary System (STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute)

Public Technologies 22 Oct 2025
Astronomers have identified a rare, ancient planetary system still being actively consumed by its central white dwarf star, LSPM J0207+3331, which is located 145 light-years from Earth ... white dwarf.
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White dwarf binaries heated by intense tidal forces evolve faster than predicted

SpaceDaily 15 Oct 2025
White dwarfs, the dense remnants of exhausted stars, are usually ancient, dim, and cool.
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When Tides Turn White Dwarfs Hot

Universe Today 15 Oct 2025
White dwarfs are stellar corpses, the slowly cooling remnants of stars that ran out of fuel billions of years ago ... Sometimes we find white dwarfs as part of binary systems ...
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Astronomers spot white dwarf that guzzled a Pluto-like world

CyprusMail 05 Oct 2025
The white dwarf is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 255 light-years from Earth, relatively close in cosmic terms, and has a mass about 57 per cent that of the sun ... White dwarfs are among the ...
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