Sentences with phrase «shows white dwarf companion»
This Hubble image also shows white dwarf companion Sirius B, at lower left (more).
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Previous studies show that it takes about 68 days for the pulsar to orbit its white dwarf companion, meaning they share an uncommonly wide orbit.
CANNIBAL ZOMBIE STAR Dead stars called white dwarfs (left) steal material from ordinary companion stars (right), as shown in this artist's illustration.
Astronomers thought white dwarfs gained mass from a companion star, but about half of the type Ia supernovae show no signs of a companion.
«Our final image should show us a companion 100 times fainter than any other white dwarf orbiting a neutron star and about 10 times fainter than any known white dwarf, but we don't see a thing,» team member Bart Dunlap, a graduate student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in a statement.
The Sun, the 12 brightest stars of the Northern Hemisphere and the white dwarf companion stars to Sirius and Procyon are shown.