White dwarf star mass measured by Hubble for the first time

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has quantified the mass of a white dwarf star directly for the first time ever. A white dwarf star is a surviving core of a burned-out star – like our Sun. Now, astronomers utilising Hubble have measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf – known as LAWD 37, finding […]

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