white dwarfs
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Two-Faced: Wacky White Dwarf Keeps Its Surface Gases Separate
Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar remnant that keeps its light elements separate, in a strange first. The object is a white dwarf, an ancient core of a dead star. White dwarfs are small (hence their name, obviously), clocking in at about the size of Earth, but with a mass similar to that of the…
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This Exoplanet-Shredding White Dwarf May Foretell The End Of Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered evidence of a star system that might foreshadow the fate of our own.
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Our Sun Could One Day Turn Into A Crystal Ball
At the end of its life, our Sun could end up as a crystal—and physicists now have observational evidence to back up that theory.
