Was it a massive star, like the Crab's progenitor, or
a tiny white dwarf, like the stars of 1006, 1572 and 1604?
PSR J1713 +0747, as it is known, has
a tiny white dwarf companion star, and the two orbit each other exceptionally predictably.
About half a billion years later, it will contract to
a tiny white dwarf one - hundredth the size it is now.
Not exact matches
The observations provided the highest - precision data ever on
tiny changes in a
white dwarf's brightness and, indirectly, its vibrations.
Such a star may become a
white dwarf or a neutron star, but if the star is sufficiently massive then it may continue shrinking eventually to the size of a
tiny atom: this is the so - called «gravitational singularity».
While now
tiny compared to main sequence stars,
white dwarf stars are actually intensely hot, but without the internal heat of fusion to keep them burning, they gradually cool and fade away.
While
tiny compared to main sequence stars,
white dwarf stars are actually intensely hot, but without the internal heat of fusion to keep them burning, they gradually cool and fade away.
«We estimate that the total number of
white dwarfs is about 100,000 in this
tiny Hubble view of the bulge.
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