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Hubble Telescope Directly Measures a White Dwarf Mass for the First Time

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Astronomers just directly measured the mass of a lone white dwarf using the Hubble Space Telescope for the first time. The dwarf—the core remnant of a star—is named LAWD 37, and it burned out about a billion years ago.

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Source: gizmodo.com