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Stars and solar physics

Rare X-rays from white-dwarf explosion spotted by chance

30 May 2022
Artist’s impression of an exploding white dwarf
Fusion reaction Artist’s impression of an exploding white dwarf that is accreting material from a companion star. (Courtesy: eROSITA Collaboration/Annika Kreikenbohm)
Astronomers have made the first observations of X-rays being emitted from a white-dwarf star that ha

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