Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to ...

NASA's IXPE telescope has revealed new details about the white dwarf star EX Hydrae, observing it not just as a point of ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

Astronomers have used a planet-hunting satellite to see a white dwarf abruptly switching on and off for the first time. The researchers led by Durham University, UK, used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet ...

Astrophysicists from MSU (Russia) and his colleagues from Italy and Russian Academy of Sciences have found the first observational evidence for a contracting white dwarf. Constant high spin-up rate of ...

White dwarfs, the compact remnants of low- to intermediate-mass stars, offer a unique window into the fate of planetary systems. Recent observational and theoretical work has revealed that many white ...

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By Michael AllenFor the first time, scientists have used NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white ...