Scientists discover a new type of star

Friday, November 13, 2009 - 20:56 in Astronomy & Space

The oxygen-rich white dwarf star had been predicted, but never found. Researchers have pinpointed two of the kind of 'missing link' between normal white dwarf stars and more-collapsed neutron stars. Scientists have added a new member to the stellar zoo, a type of white dwarf star that had been long predicted but never before found.

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