Sentences with phrase «as a white dwarf over»
Today the central star is of mag 16.6 and a high temperature of some 60,000 K, which will probably cool down as a white dwarf over the coming tens of billions of years.
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Kailash Sahu and colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, measured bending light from white dwarf Stein 2051 B as it moved in front of another star over two years.
As a white dwarf draws off hydrogen - rich material from a binary companion over millions of years, Gilfanov says, it experiences a steady process of nuclear fusion on its surface that gives off tremendous amounts of radiation.