So weird to think that the star we are looking at doesn't even exist anymore yet we can image it. Sort of like a stellar ghost story. I wonder what it looks like today, is there anything left of the nebula after all those years?
1:07 Show beautiful photo of a nebula and immediately obscure it with text. Why??? We can hear you, and if we have hearing problems we can turn on CC. I want to see the photo!
I hadn't previously heard of the situation where a white dwarf is stealing mass from a stellar companion but won't eventually go supernova once it reaches the Chandrasekhar limit - the two stars together having less than half the required mass! But, thinking on it, this is probably a very common scenario as the vast majority of stars are small.
The scale of space and the cosmic wonders already messes with my head
The most, biggest, least, fastest of ANY of them is only going to make my head spin like a top
Almost there... in 75 mil years. Sounds like my kid getting ready for school.
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The most, biggest, least, fastest of ANY of them is only going to make my head spin like a top