[BenLurkin]

Oxygen would combust, yes?

[fhayek]

But good luck breathing in the bone-crushing gravity.

Like we need a pure oxygen atmosphere. Our own atmosphere is only 21% Oxygen.

[Daniel Ramsey]

I bet anything ferrous has a hard time there, rust planet!

[disndat]

Its slowly cooling surface would still be about 21,000C and its gravity would be about 100,000 times more intense than on Earth — the equivalent of walking around while carrying 40 blue whales, he said.

Concentrated oxygen under this pressure would be poisonous, he added.

[TimF]

Space Ball 1 and President Skroob are on the way.

[StAntKnee]

A planet named, NoF’inSmokin’

[Yashcheritsiy]

But good luck breathing in the bone-crushing gravity.

A newly discovered star is unlike any ever found. With an outermost layer of 99.9 percent pure oxygen, its atmosphere is the most oxygen-rich in the known universe. Heck, it makes Earth's meager 21 percent look downright suffocating.

It'd be way too hot for us to try breathing it anywise.

[central_va]

< buzzkill > What good is any of this astro physics research? What’s the purpose?< /buzzkill >

[Fred Hayek]

This is a massive white dwarf if it has that high oxygen. Down to the core is probably a lot more silicon. However it is not massive enough to burn silicon (a rather violent reaction, producing iron.
The mass of this core remnant must be awful close to the Chandrasekhar limit. Past the limit, it would collapse into a black hole.

[Fred Hayek]

32,000 white dwarfs? This is a stellar graveyard.

[bluejean]

“And because we had no idea anything like it could even exist, that made it all the more difficult to find.”

Sounds like something an athiest might say about God...

[Vince Ferrer]

In short, by simply being so weird, Dox completely defies our general, scientific understanding of how stars evolve and eventually form into white dwarfs. But Kepler suggests that maybe this shouldn't be all that surprising. That's because, he argues, scientists have often ignored the wacky results that can come about when stars grow and evolve while locked in a binary dance with other stars—rather than alone.

This goes against everything that I was taught in school, and that Carl Sagan taught me after school. Since it is against settled science, I recommend the astronomers be burned at the stake.

[Dallas59]

So...man-made Clamitety Changey may be false too...

[Verginius Rufus]

As Bugs would say, "What's up Dox?"

Kepler de Souza Oliveira's parents may have had an interest in astronomy, to name him after Kepler.