Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...
If these weird episodes are the result of an orbiting white dwarf, a type of stellar remnant left behind when a star with around ... wave observatories like NASA's space-based detector LISA ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?
As per NASA, the rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars ...
But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored ... Today, we observe that the blue lurker is orbiting a white dwarf star -- the burned out remains of the massive ...
Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ ... An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star.
Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.