• Question: how many dead stars have you found

    Asked by to Sarah on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Sarah Casewell answered on 16 Jun 2014:


      I have found about 20 white dwarfs. I spend most of my time trying to find out more about them though – measuring their temperature, and mass and radius so I can calculate how old they are, and what sort of star they were formed from.

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