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The researchers’ evaluation of ultraviolet spectra taken by the Hubble Space Telescope points to a new record of 250,000 degrees – a temperature which can only be reached by a star some five times more massive than our Sun. The white dwarf, RX J0439.8-6809, has already entered the cooling phase. It appears to have reached its maximum temperature of 400,000 degrees about a thousand years ago.

New Record: Hottest Dying White Dwarf Identified At The Outskirts Of The Milky Way

MessageToEagle.com | November 26, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – The hottest white dwarf ever discovered in our Galaxy has been identified by astronomers at the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam, Germany. With a temperature of 250,000

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