Sentences with phrase «light of white dwarf stars»
The researchers use the light of white dwarf stars observed with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A planetlike body 4,000 light - years away may be the compacted remains of a white dwarf star that is now mostly diamond.
The normal star dumps material onto the white dwarf, generating bursts of light that earn the duo the name of cataclysmic variables.
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.
The Little Ghost (right) is a more classic planetary nebula: Its doughnut is the steadily expanding ring of star gas that has been ionized and set aglow by ultraviolet light from the central white dwarf.
A white dwarf eventually created from a star that massive has so much heat and pressure inside its core that lighter elements keep fusing into increasingly heavy elements instead of flying off into space.