Found, 2 Stars That Will Ruling
Scientists have discovered a binary system consisting of two stars 'white dwarfs' or stars that are at the end of his life. Uniquely, the two stars are expected to collide with each other and gave birth to a new star.
As is known, our Sun, and more than 90 percent of all stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a time will enter the stage of white dwarf star which is the core of a star with a faint, fading because nuclear fusion reactions have stopped.
Embers of the fire which is being cooled, which currently accounted for around 10 percent of all stars in our galaxy towards justice, generally has a weight between 40 to 90 percent the mass of our Sun but compacted in a sphere about the size of planet Earth.
A pair of stars being around each other with each other alone has been found previously. However, this was the first pair of stars rotating each other and will collide and form new stars.
"These stars have sailed almost the entire period of his life. When they join, they will be reborn and lead a second life, "said Mukremin Kilic, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Quoted from Space, May 12, 2011, the newly discovered binary system is called SDSS J010657.39-100003.3 and is in the constellation said, who was in the distance 7800 light years from Earth. They are found in a survey conducted jointly with the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, United States.
Binary system that consists of a pair of white dwarf stars. One star is visible and another invisible whose presence is indicated by how he turned the gravity of stars visible.
Stars that look alone weighs about 17 percent of the mass of the sun, while other stars have a mass 43 percent of the Sun. Astronomers believe the star is composed of helium.
The two white dwarf stars are orbiting each other with each other with a distance of 225 thousand kilometers closer than the distance of Earth to the Moon. They spin at speeds of 1.6 million kilometers per hour and complete one rotation in just 39 minutes. So far, they are a couple of the most rapidly rotating star that has ever been found.
Since they are rotating in close proximity, they distort the fabric of space and time, generating ripples that carry away energy, which causes them to spin closer and closer. After that, within 37 million years, these two stars will collide with each other.
In a report published in the journal Royal Astronomical Society, researchers say, the process of merging white dwarf itself could lead to a supernova explosion. However, it only happens when two stars are joining has a total mass of 140 percent compared to the Sun.
According to the researchers, who will join the two stars do not have sufficient resources to produce a supernova explosion. But they are big enough to force the helium atoms in the remnants of the merger to light.
Commencement of nuclear fusion in stars Beru joined it will make it shine like a star as usual until eventually it will cool down and again becomes a white dwarf.
"There might be many such stars in the galaxy," said Kilic. "Currently we are looking for other binary white dward closer to joining, and we predict that there is a great opportunity to find it," he said.
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