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Keyword: white dwarf
![NGC 2440: кокон нового белого карлика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/12/24/0001915166/ngc2440e_hst_960.preview.jpg)
24.12.2023
What's that in the center? Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off a cocoon of gas that enclosed its former self. In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas would become the prettiest cocoon of all.
![Кокон нового белого карлика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/24/0001189624/ngc2440_hst2_big.preview.jpg)
3.12.1996
Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self. In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas would become the prettiest of all!
![Hen 1357: новорожденная туманность](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/10/09/0001199911/stingray_hst.preview.jpg)
6.10.2001
This Hubble Space Telescope snapshot shows Hen-1357, the youngest known planetary nebula. Graceful, gentle curves and symmetry suggest its popular name - The Stingray Nebula. Observations in the 1970s detected no nebular material, but this image from March 1996 clearly shows the Stingray's emerging bubbles and rings of shocked and ionized gas.
![NGC 1818: Выбери звезду](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/05/31/0001190633/ngc1818_hst_c1.preview.jpg)
31.05.2003
This is NGC 1818, a youthful, glittering cluster of 20,000 stars residing in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 180,000 light-years away. Pick a star. Any star. Astronomers might pick the unassuming bluish-white one (circled) which appears to be a hot newly formed white dwarf star. What makes it so interesting?
![NGC 2440: жемчужина нового белого карлика](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2015/05/17/0001337171/ngc2440center_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
17.05.2015
Like a pearl, a white dwarf star shines best after being freed from its shell. In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a mollusk and its discarded hull would shine prettiest of all!
![Повторная новая RS Змееносца](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2006/02/26/0001211855/rs_ophiuci_021606_c33.preview.jpg)
24.02.2006
This pretty star field in the constellation Ophiucus is centered on a star not often seen - RS Ophiuci. In fact, early last week RS Oph suddenly became visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1985.
![Спираль белых карликов](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/06/02/0001206140/wd_cxc_c33.preview.jpg)
1.06.2005
About 1,600 light-years away, in a binary star system fondly known as J0806, two dense white dwarf stars orbit each other once every 321 seconds. Interpreting x-ray data from the Chandra Observatory astronomers argue that the stars' already impressively short orbital period is steadily getting shorter as the stars spiral closer together.
![Мира: удивительная звезда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/05/05/0001205476/mira_xray_cxc.preview.jpg)
5.05.2005
To seventeenth century astronomers, Omicron Ceti or Mira was known as a wonderful star - a star whose brightness could change dramatically in the course of about 11 months. Modern astronomers now recognize an entire class of long period Mira-type variables as cool, pulsating, red giant stars, 700 or so times the diameter of the Sun.
![Сферическая планетарная туманность Эйбелл 39](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/07/28/0001207394/abell39_misti_c50.preview.jpg)
28.07.2005
Ghostly in appearance, Abell 39 is a remarkably simple, spherical nebula about five light-years across. Well within our own Milky Way galaxy, the cosmic sphere is roughly 7,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Hercules.
![Планета, белый карлик и нейтронная звезда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/07/18/0001191616/amigo3_hst_c1.preview.jpg)
18.07.2003
A planet, a white dwarf, and a neutron star orbit each other in the giant globular star cluster M4, some 5,600 light-years away. The most visible member of the trio is the white...
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