A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

Astronomers Found a 'Dead Star' 1,600 Light-Years Away From Earth Sending out Mysterious Signals Every Two Hours Astronomers ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

free-floating objects in the Flame Nebula, ranging from 0.5 to 3 times the mass of Jupiter. This study aimed to understand the formation of the smallest and faintest brown dwarfs. The team explored ...

I like that it comes with a handy carrying case, but the Dwarf 3 easily fits in a small backpack when space is at a premium. Inside the Dwarf 3, you'll find a Sony IMX678 Starvis 2 sensor ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have explored the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs within the Flame Nebula, a hotbed of star formation ... low-mass limit of the star and ...

Illustration of a planet being torn apart by tidal forces from a white dwarf. (Credit: CXC/SAO/M.Weiss) ...

One of them is that of a mysterious X-ray signal coming from the Helix Nebula ... up strange readings from the nebula's center, more specifically from a white dwarf located there.

But the Helix Nebula is a tricky one to study. As a planetary nebula, its center contains a white dwarf, a type of star known for emitting weak and inconsistent X-rays. The neutral gas and dust ...

A composite image of the Helix Nebula. The white dwarf is visible as the magenta dot right in the center But now we might finally have an answer. According to a new analysis of data from several ...