A strange white dwarf star hurtling through the Milky Way may be the survivor of a ‘partial supernova’, a new study finds.
The strange white dwarf doesn’t contain any iron like most postsupernova stars do
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White dwarfs are the cool, dim Earth-sized cores of dead stars that are left behind after average-sized stars have exhausted their fuel and shed their outer layers. Our Sun will one day become a white dwarf, as will more than 90 per cent of the stars in the Milky Way.