Posted on 01/10/2019 3:33:27 AM PST by zeestephen
Dr. Tremblay said: "This is the first direct evidence that white dwarfs crystallise, or transition from liquid to solid. It was predicted fifty years ago that we should observe a pile-up in the number of white dwarfs at certain luminosities and colours due to crystallisation and only now this has been observed....The Sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
VERY GOOD!...............Not their ‘best’, but good!...................
It’s amazing what he know about stars just by looking at their light and using the laws of physics.
They sound like piezomanaics! ;^)
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