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| | In a paper published today in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains why a puzzling population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for ten billion years.
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| | Scientists caught a white dwarf star consuming its own planet, offering fresh clues as to what happens to planetary systems after their star dies.
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| | [AI summary] This article explains what white dwarf stars are, describes their formation and cooling process, and details Hubble Space Telescope observations that detected silicon in the atmospheres of two ancient white dwarfs.
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| President Obama, Vice President Biden, and many science team leaders signed a plaque affixed to NASA's Mars rover Curiosity for its journey to Mars.