Binary White Dwarf Merger (VIDEO)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

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CfA astronomers have found a pair of white dwarf stars orbiting each other once every 39 minutes. In a few million years, they will merge and reignite as a helium-burning star.

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