Tag Archive for 'Pulsator'

An artist’s impression of two white dwarfs in the process of merging; depending on the combined mass, the system may explode in a thermonuclear supernova, or coalesce into a single heavy white dwarf, as with WD J0551+4135. Image credit: Mark Garlick / University of Warwick.

Astronomers Discover First Pulsating White Dwarf in Eclipsing Binary System

Mar 17, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have spotted a pulsating white dwarf star in the binary stellar system SDSS J115219.99+024814.4 (SDSS J1152+0248 for short). An artist’s...

TESS Discovers New Class of Pulsating Star

Mar 10, 2020 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a team of professional astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a star...

This image shows HIP 52181 (blue star in the center), a pulsating subdwarf O-star. Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD / SDSS.

New Class of Pulsating Stars Discovered

Aug 6, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers from the United States, Germany and Israel has discovered a new class of pulsators that vary in brightness every 5...