Scientists behind the research think this stellar corpse is actually a monster-sized white dwarf. The discovery raises the question of how the binary's "living" star has managed to survive in ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

Soon enough, you organise a major expedition back to the island. Cyprus wasn’t the only Mediterranean island with dwarf wildlife. In fact, Crete, Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and many other islands ...

Container-grown camellias benefit from more shade than plants in the ground. Hinoki false cypress is a needled evergreen with an upright mounded to pyramidal shape. Several dwarf varieties are ...

Cyprus only had two species of megafauna present during the Late Pleistocene—the 500-kg dwarf elephant (Palaeoloxodon cypriotes), and the 130-kg dwarf hippo (Phanourios minor), but both species ...

Choose a dwarf variety and plant in the largest pot you can using a well-drained compost. A good choice are dwarf varieties of Hinoki cypress Chamaecyparis obtusa including ‘Meroke Twin’, which grows ...

Small evergreens, gold thread cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera), birds nest spruce (Picea abies), hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) and dwarf yew (Taxus cuspidata) are beautiful in containers.

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf ...

He was 2nd Technician on Red Dwarf though he always wanted to be an officer. However after sitting and failing his Asto-navigation exam on no less than 13 occasions and doing the same with his ...

The dwarf planet Ceres hosts a frozen ocean that is almost pure water ice at its surface and becomes ‘dirtier’ with depth, modelling suggests 1. The work reconciles conflicting evidence ...

Unravelling an ancient European extinction mystery: Disappearance of dwarf megafauna on palaeolithic Cyprus Date: September 17, 2024 Source: Flinders University Summary: Scientists have unravelled ...