A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

A nearby white dwarf is carving a colourful shockwave through space, puzzling astronomers and raising new questions about how ...

A compact stellar corpse in our own galaxy has just delivered one of the strangest surprises in recent astrophysics: a vast, ...

Astronomers have observed a rainbow-shaped bow shock around a nearby dead star, RXJ0528+2838. It is located 731 light-years ...

In this shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen and blue represented oxygen residing in ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember – that is creating ⁠a colorful shock ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember - that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

In this case, RXJ0528+2838 is orbited by a still-living star similar in size to our sun. In such cases, material from the ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

A new image captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope reveals a beautiful shockwave around a dead ...

Astronomy often moves forward in small steps. Then, from time to time, something appears in the sky that simply does not fit ...