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The Hottest White Dwarf We Know of Is Up to Something Ghoulish With Its Neighbor – ScienceAlert

There’s a dead star behaving very oddly 1,300 light-years away.

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There’s a dead star behaving very oddly 1,300 light-years away.
It’s a white dwarf named KPD 0005+5106, and X-ray data from the Chandra space telescope have revealed that it’s enacting extreme violence on an orbiting companion. Not only is it siphoning…

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