ESA/Hubble heic2301: For The First Time Hubble Directly Measures The Mass of a Lone White Dwarf. Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf star – the surviving core of a burned-out sunlike star.

ESA/Hubble News
2 February 2023

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf star – the surviving core of a burned-out sunlike star.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://esahubble.org/news/heic2301/

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ESA/Hubble Information Centre
2 February 2023




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