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Supernova G1.9+0.3 Credits: NASA/CXC/CfA/S. Chakraborti et al.

Trigger for Milky Way’s Youngest Supernova Identified

MessageToEagle.com | March 30, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – Scientists have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the NSF’s Jansky Very Large Array to determine the likely trigger for the most recent supernova in

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.

Astronomy

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