Daily Archives: December 13, 2008

Sizzling!

Posted on December 13, 2008 by

Astronomers have found one of the hottest white dwarfs ever recorded! With a temperature of nearly 200,000 kelvins, KPD 0005+5106 is so hot that it has photospheric emission lines in the ultraviolet. That’s never actually been seen before! Emission lines … Continue reading →

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