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Astronomers Find Four White Dwarfs Nearby
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Astronomers have identified four previously hidden white dwarf stars orbiting red dwarf companions within 65 light-years of Earth. The discovery was made using ultraviolet data from the Hubble Space Telescope after traditional visible light observations failed to detect them.
Researchers at University of Warwick and University of Colorado Boulder have directly observed, for the first time, four white dwarfs stars orbiting in double star systems in our nearby region of space. These stellar binaries are all located within 65 light-years of Earth, and one of them is the ninth closest white dwarf to our Sun.
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