Not exact matches
«Asteroid ripped apart to form
star's glowing ring system:
Research includes first image of ring system orbiting a
white dwarf.»
The UCSB - led
research implies that the
white dwarf was stealing matter from a much larger companion
star — approximately 20 times the radius of the sun — which caused the
white dwarf to explode.
My
research concentrates on the study of exploding
stars — mainly nova outbursts caused by thermonuclear explosions on the surface of
white dwarfs in binary
star systems.
The observations of the
star NLTT 11748 by this
research group have yielded the first direct radius measurement of an unusual
white dwarf that confirms this theory.
Archival work, of course, isn't exactly what most scientists dream to be doing at NASA, so in 1999 Dr. Livio began shifting his
research, focusing on black holes, acceleration of mass,
white dwarves, neutron
stars and particularly on supernova explosions.
A 1997 paper by astronomers (Henry et al) associated with the
Research Consortium on Nearby
Stars (RECONS) suggests that the sample of stars known to lie within 10 parsecs (32.6 ly) of Earth is «woefully incomplete,» particularly in faint red (M) dwarfs and «white» dw
Stars (RECONS) suggests that the sample of
stars known to lie within 10 parsecs (32.6 ly) of Earth is «woefully incomplete,» particularly in faint red (M) dwarfs and «white» dw
stars known to lie within 10 parsecs (32.6 ly) of Earth is «woefully incomplete,» particularly in faint red (M)
dwarfs and «
white»
dwarfs.