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white dwarf binaries
Coverage of white dwarf binaries in the Nexus archive.
- Astronomers just found four hidden white dwarf stars near Earth
Astronomers discovered four nearby white dwarf stars hidden beside brighter red dwarf companions using Hubble's ultraviolet observations. One white dwarf is just 25 light-years away and took nearly three decades to confirm, supporting predictions of many more undiscovered white dwarf binaries in our galaxy.