
First Pulsating Carbon White Dwarf
McDonald Observatory astronomers Michael Montgomery, Kurtis Williams, and Steven DeGennaro discovered that the star SDSS J142625.71+575218.3 is the first pulsating carbon white dwarf. Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Collaboration (http://sdss.org)
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