How we found a white dwarf – a stellar corpse – by accident
- Written by Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
Searching for planets around nearby stars is like searching for a needle in a field of haystacks. Trevor Dobson/Flikr, CC BY-ND
One of the great things about science is that, when you start to observe a new object in space, you can never be sure quite what you’ll find.
We received a fantastic reminder of this during observations designed to...
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