NASA, Texas Astronomers Find First Multi-Planet System around a Binary Star
The discovery of the Tatooine-like system proves that whole planetary systems can form in a disk around a binary star.
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Astronomers Test Einstein in a New Regime Using Pair of Burnt-Out Stars
The white dwarf stars are so close together that they make a complete orbit in less than 13 minutes.
TIME: Z Machine Produces Six Times the World’s Energy to Create White Dwarf Star
Research delves into how stars are created.
NY Daily News: Astronomers Recreate Surface of White Dwarf Star
Research could one day lead to nuclear fusion as a ‘meaningful energy source.’
The Art and Science of Making White Dwarfs in the Desert
Astronomer Don Winget is making white dwarf "star stuff" here on Earth.
From Marfa to Mauritania
A brief history of the McDonald Observatory and the National Science Foundation.
Astronomers Probe ‘Evaporating’ Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
A Jupiter-size planet in a nearby solar system is dissolving because of interactions with its parent star.
After a 30-Year Wait, Texas Scientists’ Instrument Blasts Into Space
ESA's Vega rocket launched a satellite in orbit that supports an experiment proposed by UT scientists in the mid-1980s.
Hubble Study Challenges "Cosmic Fireworks" as Largest Driver of Galaxy Growth
University of Texas at Austin astronomers studied 166 of the most massive galaxies present only a few billion years after the Big Bang.
Texas Astronomers Collaborate to Find Goldilocks Planet
The planet is the first located in the "just-right" orbit that's not too hot, nor too cold for water to exist in liquid form, making life as we know it possible.
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