A team of scientists, led by Miguel Santander-García set out to learn why some stars create strangely shaped nebulae late in their lives. What they found was something that has never been seen before, two white dwarves on their way to becoming one star and then exploding in a supernova.
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Anonymous
This research was presented in a paper entitled “The double-degenerate, super-Chandrasekhar nucleus of the planetary nebula Henize 2-428” by M. Santander-García et al., to appear online in the journal Nature on 9 February 2015.
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Justin Beach
That star, however, won’t last long. It will be so massive that it will collapse under its own weight and explode.
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Anonymous
They found that each of the stars has a mass slightly less than that of the Sun and that they orbit each other every four hours. They are sufficiently close to one another that, according to the Einstein’s theory of general relativity, they will grow closer and closer, spiralling in due to the emission of gravitational waves, before eventually merging into a single star within the next 700 million years.
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