Sentences with phrase «compact white dwarf»
When a star ages and the red giant phase of its life comes to an end, it starts to eject layers of gas from its surface leaving behind a hot and compact white dwarf.
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These are thought to arise when a normal star spills its outer layers of gas on its compact white dwarf partner.
Not exact matches
Planets orbiting more compact objects, such as white dwarfs, pulsars and black holes, might have even shorter years since they can get closer in.
This system shows all three: a polluted white dwarf, a surrounding debris disk, and at least one compact, rocky object.
For the first time, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup of a comet being ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a white dwarf, the burned - out remains of a compact star.
Such stars end their lives in huge supernova explosions, ejecting their stellar materials outwards into space and leaving behind an extremely dense and compact object; this could either be a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole.
A planetlike body 4,000 light - years away may be the compacted remains of a white dwarf star that is now mostly diamond.
These eventually disperse and leave behind hot, compact objects known as white dwarfs.
Thus, US 708 could have originally resided in an ultra compact binary system, transferring helium to a massive white dwarf companion, ultimately triggering a thermonuclear explosion of a type Ia supernova.
They are so called because one of the pair of stellar companions is a normal star and the other a compact object — a white dwarf, neutron star, or possibly a black hole.
Dwarf Winter White Russians are very small and compact, measuring only 3-1/2» to 4» as full grown adults.