Astronomers Discover New Class of Pulsating Star

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, 2008 @06:17AM from the shiny-new-toys dept.

KentuckyFC writes "It doesn't happen very often but astronomers have discovered a new class of pulsating white dwarf. The work began last year when the Sloan Digital Sky Survey found a few exotic white dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres. A mathematical model of these stars showed that in some circumstances the dwarfs could pulsate as the carbon was cycled through the atmosphere by convection. Now a few days observation of one of these stars has shown that it does actually pulsate as predicted."

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What is love? by BadAnalogyGuy · 2008-03-21 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Baby don't hurt me.
Don't hurt me.
No more.

Wait, that's Chris Kattan, a different kind of white dwarf star.
1. Re:What is love? by Dr.+Cody · 2008-03-21 06:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The inevitable and predictable jokes people make when the word "dwarf" comes up in some neutral context are sophomoric and insensitive.
  
  We shouldn't belittle people for how they were born.
Pulsating White Dwarf... by thousandinone · 2008-03-21 06:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Thats what THE LADIES call me!