Hubble Discovers Four Hidden Stars 65 Light-Years From Earth
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have directly detected four previously hidden white dwarfs orbiting nearby red dwarf stars within 20 parsecs of the Sun, according to a study published in Oxford Academic. The research, titled “Direct detections of white dwarfs in four WD+dM post-common envelope binaries within 20 pc,” resolves a long-standing observational challenge … Read more