NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a ...

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Astronomers have found a ‘vampire’ star in the midst of a feeding frenzy, with the help of an automated program that is sifting through archived data from the decommissioned Kepler Space Telescope.