Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star ...
A mysterious bow shock around the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 is challenging astronomers’ understanding of how dead stars ...
Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave. Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...
A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, colorful shock wave apparently blasting out from a white dwarf that was ...
Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, rainbow-like shock wave surrounding a dead star that technically should not exist. The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central square image, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows shock waves around the dead star ...
A vibrant display of glowing gases around a dead star is fueled by a mysterious source that scientists can’t explain, in a phenomenon without precedent. As stars move through space, they push away ...
Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope to spot something that should not exist: a bright ...