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Astronomers find unique disc of debris around dead star | ESO News

Posted on: 27 Oct 2026, 9:00 am


Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found a unique disc of debris around the white dwarf J1328−1450 -- the dead core of a star similar to our Sun. The star is surrounded not by one but two discs of gas, which are likely maintained by planetesimals that survived the star’s death. As these planetesimals orbit the star, they interact with dust grains around the star, releasing gas that ends up arranged in two discs. This video summarises the discovery.

NASA Image Of The Day

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CHAPEA Crew Leaves a Mark
10 Nov 2026

Photos of the CHAPEA Mission 2 crew are arranged around a boot print in the simulated Martian sand outside their habitat.

CHAPEA Crew Leaves a Mark

Astronauts Across Generations Share the Stage
9 Nov 2026

On Nov. 6, 2026, Purpose Entertainment hosted the Artemis Celebration Gala at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Merritt Island, Florida. Held on the eve of NASA's MAX POWER event, the gala celebrated the explorers, innovators, and visionaries advancing the next era of human spaceflight. The event honored the successful completion of the agency's Artemis II mission, marking a historic milestone in America's return to deep space exploration. As one of the signature events concluding the nation's 250th anniversary celebration, the gala commemorated the achievements of Artemis II while looking ahead to humanity's return to the lunar surface through the Artemis campaign.

Astronauts Across Generations Share the Stage

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The Ice Giants' Magnetic Fields are Very Strange Compared to Earth's
Posted on: 11 Nov 2026

Uranus and Neptune, the Solar System's ice giants, have interiors unlike the other planets. As a result, they also have magnetic fields unlike the others. They're messy and tilted, and Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to even flyby them, showed us how messy they are. New research uses models to try to understand what's going on with the pair of planets and their weird fields, and found that it's likely they change on very short timescales. They could already be much different than when Voyager 2 visited in the late 1980s.

Asteroid Mining Will Crash the Platinum Market, But That’s Good News for Earth
Posted on: 11 Nov 2026

Science fiction authors have been dreaming of robotic spacecraft harvesting fortunes from asteroids for decades. Humanity is slowly getting closer to that reality. But if you ask asteroid mining skeptics, they will usually ask one specific question - what happens to the prices of all those rare materials once someone actually brings them back? A pair of system dynamicists from MIT directly tackled that question with a new paper titled Will AstroForge Collapse the PGM Market?

Faces of the Moon A new book by ASNH member Bob Crelin Click the book below for information on the book

There Once Was A Sky Full Of Stars A new book by ASNH member Bob Crelin Click the book below for information on the book

The 100 Best Targets for Astrophotography A new book by ASNH member Ruben Kier Click the book below for a review from Springer.com