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Hubble Catches Stellar Exodus in Action
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Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured for the first time snapshots of fledging white dwarf stars beginning their slow-paced, 40-million-year migration from the crowded center of an ancient star cluster to the less populated suburbs. White dwarfs are the burned-out relics of stars that rapidly lose mass, cool down and shut off their nuclear furnaces.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHubble Catches Stellar Exodus in Action. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000722.
