The Mass of a Lone White Dwarf Measured Directly For The First Time

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For The First Time Hubble Directly Measures The Mass of a Lone White Dwarf

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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf star – the surviving core of a burned-out sunlike star.

Researchers found that the white dwarf is 56 percent of the mass of our Sun. This agrees with earlier theoretical predictions of its mass and corroborates current theories of how white dwarfs evolve as the end product of a typical star’s evolution. The unique observation yields insights into theories of the structure and composition of white dwarfs.

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Edited February 9 by Waspie_Dwarf
typo in the title