{"id":185750,"date":"2024-03-22T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/discovery-tests-theory-on-cooling-of-white-dwarf-stars"},"modified":"2024-03-22T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T15:23:38","slug":"discovery-tests-theory-on-cooling-of-white-dwarf-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/discovery-tests-theory-on-cooling-of-white-dwarf-stars","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Tests Theory on Cooling of White Dwarf Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-tests-theory-on-cooling-of-white-dwarf-stars3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you\u2019ll likely learn that they are \u201cdead stars\u201d that continuously cool down over time. New research published in Nature is challenging this theory, with the University of Victoria (UVic) and its partners using data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia satellite to reveal why a population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for more than eight billion years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discovered the classical picture of all white dwarfs being dead stars is incomplete,\u201d says Simon Blouin, co-principal investigator and Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics National Fellow at UVic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor these white dwarfs to stop cooling, they must have some way of generating extra energy. We weren\u2019t sure how this was happening, but now we have an explanation for the phenomenon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you\u2019ll likely learn that they are \u201cdead stars\u201d that continuously cool down over time. New research published in Nature is challenging this theory, with the University of Victoria (UVic) and its partners using data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia satellite to reveal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185750","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}