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This Dead Star Is Producing A Beautiful Shock Wave Current Models Can’t Explain

Summary by IFLScience
Perhaps this white dwarf should be renamed a rainbow dwarf?

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Astronomers have discovered stunning, rainbow-like shock waves surrounding a dying star. But the discovery baffles them, as such a structure shouldn't exist according to any known mechanism. It challenges our understanding of how dying stars interact with their surroundings.

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“We find something never seen and, more importantly, totally unexpected,” says one scientist

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IFLScience broke the news in on Monday, January 12, 2026.
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