{"id":139383,"date":"2022-05-15T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/explosion-on-a-white-dwarf-star-observed-for-the-very-first-time"},"modified":"2022-05-15T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:03:45","slug":"explosion-on-a-white-dwarf-star-observed-for-the-very-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/explosion-on-a-white-dwarf-star-observed-for-the-very-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Explosion on a White Dwarf Star Observed for the Very First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/explosion-on-a-white-dwarf-star-observed-for-the-very-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When stars like our Sun run out of fuel, they contract to form white dwarfs. Such dead stars can sometimes flare back to life in a super-hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team from several German institutes including T\u00fcbingen University and led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU) has now observed such an explosion of X-ray light for the very first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was to some extent a fortunate coincidence, really,\u201d explains Ole K\u00f6nig from the Astronomical Institute at FAU in the Dr. Karl Remeis observatory in Bamberg, who has published an article about this observation in the reputable journal Nature, together with Prof. Dr. J\u00f6rn Wilms and a research team from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, the University of T\u00fcbingen, the Universitat Polit\u00e9cnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. \u201cThese X-ray flashes last only a few hours and are almost impossible to predict, but the observational instrument must be pointed directly at the explosion at exactly the right time,\u201d explains the astrophysicist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese so-called novae do happen all the time but detecting them during the very first moments when most of the X-ray emission is produced is really hard.\u201d \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When stars like our Sun run out of fuel, they contract to form white dwarfs. Such dead stars can sometimes flare back to life in a super-hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team from several German institutes including T\u00fcbingen University and led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU) has now observed such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}