Journey to A Dead Star Creating Shockwaves | European Southern Observatory
This video zooms into RXJ0528+2838, a dead star creating a shock wave as it moves through space. The star is a white dwarf in a binary system with a Sun-like star orbiting it. It is located 730 light-years away. The video is a sequence of images taken with several telescopes, at distinct times. The journey begins with a wide view of the night sky in visible light, transitioning into an image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) and then the PanSTARRS survey, also in the visible light. The final image of the star was taken with the MUSE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, showing the trail the star forms as it moves through space.
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger/Digitized Sky Survey 2/PanSTARRS/K. Iłkiewicz and S. Scaringi et al.
Duration: 1 minute Release Date: Jan. 12, 2025
Duration: 1 minute Release Date: Jan. 12, 2025
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Read science paper "A persistent bow shock in a diskless magnetized accreting white dwarf": https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2601/eso2601a.pdf
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