1910 ⟶ Fleming Publishes Discovery of White Dwarf Stars
Williamina Fleming publishes her discovery of white dwarf st...
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🌟 Fleming Publishes Discovery of White Dwarf Stars
Williamina Fleming publishes her discovery of white dwarf stars.⟶
AstronomyStellar AstronomyWhite DwarfFlemingAstrophysics
United States💥 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Predicts White Dwarf Collapse; Baade and Zwicky Describe Neutron Stars
By applying new ideas from subatomic physics, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar predicts that the atoms in a white dwarf star of more than 1.44 solar masses will disintegrate, causing the star to collapse violently. In 1933, Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky describe the neutron star that results from this collapse, causing a supernova explosion.⟶
PhysicsAstrophysicsStellar EvolutionWhite DwarfNeutron StarSupernovaSubrahmanyan ChandrasekharWalter BaadeFritz Zwicky20th Century
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Switzerland🌟 Discovery of the First Pulsar
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish detected the first pulsar, an object emitting regular pulses of radio waves. Pulsars are eventually recognized as rapidly spinning neutron stars with intense magnetic fields - the remains of a supernova explosion.⟶
AstronomyAstrophysicsPulsarJocelyn Bell BurnellAntony HewishNeutron StarsRadio Waves1960sSupernova
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