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Bashful has disappeared from his spot in Craigtoun Park's Japanese Garden. They are now appealing for the item’s safe return and are urging whoever may have taken, or moved, the dwarf to bring ...
Indie animation producer and distributor GKIDS and Japanese stop-motion animation studio Dwarf announced that they will jointly develop a new animated film based on the original autobiographical ...
Star symbols are the now seven confirmed double-faced white dwarfs, including J0847+4824 and J0856+1611 presented in this work. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adbd3a ...
Red Dwarf fans have only just realised that one iconic moment from the show was completely unscripted. The BBC sci-fi comedy series launched in 1988 and ran for 10 years before returning in 2009.
The two stars are brown dwarfs, which means they are both small and very dim because they can’t sustain nuclear fusion and are often referred to as failed stars or substellar objects.
Results of the new observations, published April 9 on the arXiv preprint server, indicate that the system harbors a massive pulsating white dwarf. Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary star ...
The dwarf is one of seven that can be found around the park, along with Snow White as part of a treasure hunt style trail for families to complete during their visit. However, the Friends of ...
Travis went in on him. Travis burst into an uncontrollable laughter after seeing the picture and exclaiming, "gosh, look at those jugs". Travis couldn't help himself, while Jason says he "didn't ...
This artist’s illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are lighter than stars, but heavier than gas ...
An artist's impression shows the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs, objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. The newly discovered ...
"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and exciting." Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary ...
It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs - celestial objects too small to be a star and too big to be a planet. And its orbit is unlike any other such planet on record. Sign up here.