They found that two metal - bearing
white dwarfs showed an excess of infrared radiation.
A fraction of polluted
white dwarfs showed signs of surrounding debris disks, but the origin of the disks was uncertain.
Theorists speculated that
white dwarfs showing evidence of heavy metals became «polluted» when they consumed rocky planets or asteroids.
Not exact matches
One of the trailers for the kid's movie has been removed, as it
shows two of the
dwarves spying on Snow
White as she undresses.
Records
show Lynn Nunes, who was six votes shy of defeating City Councilman Thomas
White (D - South Ozone Park) during last year's Democratic primary, has
dwarfed the incumbent in both contributions and expenditures, campaign finance records
show.
The researchers found that relatively cool accretion discs around young stars, whose inner edges can be several times the size of the Sun,
show the same behaviour as the hot, violent accretion discs around planet - sized
white dwarfs, city - sized black holes and supermassive black holes as large as the entire Solar system, supporting the universality of accretion physics.
The study, «Accretion - induced variability links young stellar objects,
white dwarfs, and black holes», which is published in the journal Science Advances,
shows how the «flickering» in the visible brightness of young stellar objects (YSOs)-- very young stars in the final stages of formation — is similar to the flickering seen from black holes or
white dwarfs as they violently pull matter from their surroundings in a process known as accretion.
This artist's concept
shows a massive, comet - like object falling toward a
white dwarf.
This system
shows all three: a polluted
white dwarf, a surrounding debris disk, and at least one compact, rocky object.
Sometimes, though, astronomers find a
white dwarf that
shows signs of heavier elements like silicon and iron in its light spectrum.
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.
New theoretical models
show that hydrogen in
white dwarfs should emit blue light, not red as astronomers once thought.
WHAT LIES WITHIN The inner structure of a
white dwarf star (
shown in this artist's impression) has been mapped for the first time — and it's more oxygen - rich than expected.
Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars,
shown close - up here: One is a yellow -
white F - type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red
dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.
«Smoking gun» evidence
shows how
white dwarfs acquire metals — and foreshadows Earth's possible future
Astronomers thought
white dwarfs gained mass from a companion star, but about half of the type Ia supernovae
show no signs of a companion.
And even then, the planet would have to orbit a special kind of star, a
white dwarf, for the CFCs to
show up.
«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.
This Hubble image also
shows white dwarf companion Sirius B, at lower left (more).
While the presence of the calcium - carbonate is still in question, the paper
shows strong evidence that the accreted material is almost certainly coming from the outer layers of a planet - like object and that
white dwarf stars hold promise in informing on the structure of planets outside of the Solar system.
This animation
shows the explosion of a
white dwarf, an extremely dense remnant of a star that can no longer burn nuclear fuel at its core.
The Sun, the 12 brightest stars of the Northern Hemisphere and the
white dwarf companion stars to Sirius and Procyon are
shown.
The first part of the presentation will focus on Walt Disney Animation Studios, leading to another reel —
showing brief clips from many classic animated features of the past, ranging from «Snow
White and the Seven
Dwarfs» to «Beauty and the Beast» to «Tangled.»
In the process of
showing us this transformation, Majidi takes us into a world that most of us will never see except on film — an Iranian industrial city, its
white skyscrapers
dwarfed by mountains in the background.
The photo at the side
shows Oatmeal the winter
white dwarf hamster posing with the unassembled parts
He «acts» opposite an obvious, bulb - nosed Snow
White, and together they form the
show's protagonist / antagonist duo, though they are joined in many of the footage screened in the multi-channel installations by a cast of
dwarves (the titular Seven Dwarves of Disney l
dwarves (the titular Seven
Dwarves of Disney l
Dwarves of Disney legend).
Walt Disney's Snow
White and the Seven
Dwarfs was first
shown to a theatrical audience in December 1937 and brought overwhelming, joyous applause from a house full of hardened film - industry professionals.