Some large white dwarf stars appear to cease ageing for billions of years. Now we might know why
NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz and College of Cambridge), Okay. Sahu (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI)
Some white dwarf stars could also be frozen in time due to unusual floating crystals. The crystals appear to maintain the celebs from cooling as they age, so the white dwarfs look comparatively younger for billions of years.
White dwarfs kind when stars just like our solar burn via all of their gas and blow off their outer layers. This leaves behind a scorching core, which cools over time and ultimately freezes over. In…
