White Dwarfs

Astronomers Locate Ultra Rare and Super Hot Stars in Space

While perhaps everybody knows by now that stars are generally hotter than your morning coffee, here’s another fact that we all should be aware of: some stars are hotter than others. Some of these celestial objects even reach staggeringly high…

January 9, 2023 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

White Dwarfs Can Slow Down Their Own Rate of Aging via Hydrogen Burning

White dwarfs continue to amaze astronomers and teach us all that there is so much more to learn about these objects. Astronomy is an incredibly vast field, and when it comes to white dwarfs, dozens of books can be written.…

September 7, 2021 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

Where Does Carbon Come From?

In the course of their lives, like celestial chemical factories, stars are fusing hydrogen and helium atoms to form progressively heavier elements, including carbon. In death, extremely massive stars explode. Near the end of its nuclear explosion, stars expel most of its outer…

July 14, 2020 ·by Katherine Baldwin· 0

JWST Might Helps Us Track Down Alien Life on Rocky Planets Around White Dwarfs

Several new telescopes will be ready for use in the following years, with the James Web Space Telescope (JWST) being one of the most anticipated tools. New research argues that the most suitable places for tracking down biosignatures are rocky…

May 7, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

The Sun Would Become A Solid Crystal After Its Death

Years after our star’s fusion has faded away and it would have cooled down, the Sun would become a solid crystal after its death, joining the billion of such space bodies, scattered all over the Universe. In a recent study,…

January 10, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0