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Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...
Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...
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Astronomers have discovered an unusual blue-tinted white dwarf star with two distinct "faces": one side is hydrogen and the other side is helium, according to a new paper published in the journal ...
White dwarfs are generally small, at 0.6 times the mass of the Sun, but WDJ0551+4135 is 1.14 times the mass of the Sun, which raises new questions about how these stars evolve and the number of ...
The white dwarf ZTF J1901+1458 is about 2,670 miles across, while the moon is 2,174 miles across. The white dwarf is depicted above the Moon in this artistic representation; in reality, the white ...
When the white dwarf passes in front of its companion, gravitational lensing—the focusing of light by a massive body—magnifies the star's light very slightly.
A white dwarf is the evolutionary endpoint of a sun-like star.After such a star swells to become a red giant, then runs out of the fuel required for nuclear fusion reactions, the star ejects its ...
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The white dwarf, a type of remnant left behind when certain stars peter out, has a radius of about 2,100 kilometers, researchers report June 30 in Nature. That’s remarkably close to the moon’s ...
Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its fuel (hydrogen and helium). Just like the ...
This brown dwarf is 67 times the mass of Jupiter and about the equivalent diameter. Because white dwarfs are small husks of former stars, WD 1202-024 is much smaller than its progenitor star.