Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets and their parent stars.
Regular stars collapse and die once they run out of fuel for their nuclear reactions, but the white dwarfs just sit there, hanging out, for eternity.
"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding these stars."
"Astronomers have wanted to spot a coronal mass ejection on another star for decades. We’ve now managed to do this for the first time."
This new analysis could be used to test the physics of quantum chromodynamics in the future.
The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements originating from the rocky body.
Astronomers have sighted Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion — and it’s turning out to be full of surprises.
This quiz will take you on a journey through the life cycle of stars, their classification, and the incredible processes that power them.
Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed 3D map ever made of stellar nurseries in our Milky Way galaxy.
Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.
