'Impossible' pair of vampire stars discovered by Einstein Probe's X-ray vision
A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.
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White Dwarfs
When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.
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White Dwarf Supernovae May Hold the Key to Dark Energy and Unresolved Cosmic Mysteries
Recent observations of white dwarf explosions have revealed new insights into their diversity and relationship to dark energy ...
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To decode dark energy, the Rubin Observatory will find millions of exploding vampire stars
The light output of exploding white dwarf stars, which are the stellar corpses of stars with masses around that of the sun, is so uniform that astronomers can use it to measure distances.
Astronomers gauge livability of exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars
Astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would offer a ...