{"id":155287,"date":"2023-01-12T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-find-a-group-of-zombie-stars-20-times-hotter-than-the-sun"},"modified":"2023-01-12T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T00:22:56","slug":"astronomers-find-a-group-of-zombie-stars-20-times-hotter-than-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-find-a-group-of-zombie-stars-20-times-hotter-than-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find a group of zombie stars 20 times hotter than the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-a-group-of-zombie-stars-20-times-hotter-than-the-sun2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, all stars are hot compared with anything we\u2019re used to here on Earth. But while the Sun\u2019s surface chills at a steady 6,000 degrees Kelvin, these stars\u2019 extreme temperatures range from 100,000 to 180,000 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>These are \u201cstars which are a little bit outside the canonical evolution,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/uni-tuebingen.de\/en\/fakultaeten\/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet\/fachbereiche\/physik\/institute\/astronomie-und-astrophysik\/astronomie-hea\/kontakt\/beschaeftigte-am-iaat\/klaus-werner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Klaus Werner<\/a> of the University of Tuebingen\u2019s Kepler Centre for Astro and Particle Physics, a co-author of the paper, tells <em>Inverse<\/em>. \u201cThese stars are strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even among the ultra-hot white dwarfs known by the designation PG1159, the selection that cropped up in this survey lack the helium normally found in their atmosphere: instead, they\u2019ve burned it all away, fusing it into a solar atmosphere of pure carbon and oxygen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, all stars are hot compared with anything we\u2019re used to here on Earth. But while the Sun\u2019s surface chills at a steady 6,000 degrees Kelvin, these stars\u2019 extreme temperatures range from 100,000 to 180,000 degrees. These are \u201cstars which are a little bit outside the canonical evolution,\u201d Klaus Werner of the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155287","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}