It’s billions of years in the future, but at some point, our warm, friendly sun exhausts its fuel and eventually collapses into a white dwarf. It’s a common fate for stars that aren’t massive enough to become black holes or neutron stars. Using an X-Ray telescope orbiting the Earth, researchers were able to take a peek into the heart of a unique “vampire” white dwarf system (EX Hydrae) for the first time, publishing their findings recently in the The Astrophysical Journal.
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