Tagged: white dwarfs

White dwarfs, the glowing cores of dead stars, often host disks of dusty debris. However, these debris disks only appear 10 to 20 millions of years following the star’s violent Red Giant phase. A new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Jordan Steckloff unravels...

A few days ago, we reported about white dwarfs growing bigger and bigger by sucking in mass from the outer layers of their companion stars. Another star has also certain ‘feeding habits’. The star RZ Piscium – located about 550 light-years away in the constellation...