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This object is possibly the oldest of its kind ever catalogued: the hourglass-shaped remnant named CK Vulpeculae.
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. P. S. Eyres (link to DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2554 below)

Astronomers have found for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670. Researchers from Keele University have worked with an international team of astronomers to find for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a ‘blaze of glory’ that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the international team of astronomers, including workers from the Universities of Keele, Manchester, South Wales, Arizona State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Warmia & ...