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Double white dwarf system detected in a nearby stellar cluster
- February 17, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was presented in a paper published February 9 on the arXiv preprint server .
Originally published at Phys.org