Sentences with phrase «dead white dwarf»

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CANNIBAL ZOMBIE STAR Dead stars called white dwarfs (left) steal material from ordinary companion stars (right), as shown in this artist's illustration.

But some scientists have suggested the fast - moving stars near the cluster centres could instead result from the gravity of many dim, dead stars such as white dwarfs or neutron stars.

White dwarfs — the exposed cores of dead stars — are the last place astronomers expected to find an oxygen atmosphere.

First, the paper suggests that there could be habitable planets around white dwarfs — during the dead - end stage that comes after the inferno of the red giant.

This pressure, called Fermi pressure, is what stabilizes cold, dead starsnamely white dwarfs and neutron starsfrom collapsing under their own gravitational attraction.

At the lower - left is the band of white dwarfs - these are the dead cores of old stars which have no internal energy source and over billions of years slowly cool down towards the bottom - right of the diagram.

The new study describes a dead star, or white dwarf, called PG 0010 +280.

But contained within these dead stars, called white dwarfs, is the early history of our galaxy, providing clues on how it came to be.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

Technically, white dwarfs are no longer «live» stars, but rather the «dead» remains of extinguished stars.

Funny thing is, in a few billion years time, alien astronomers may be looking at the dusty remains of our planet drifting around our dead, white dwarf sun.

As US 708 traveled around the white dwarf, the dead star would have stolen its helium.

If you're after a classic bedtime story, there's Snow White and the Seven Dead Dwarves: A Zombie Fairy Tale.»