WD 0145+234
WD 0145+234 is the name of a star that has stopped shining and has become a white dwarf. It's like a tiny ball of super hot gas that is about the size of Earth, but has the mass of the Sun. This means it's really, really dense and very heavy.
The star used to be like our Sun, but it ran out of fuel and collapsed, leaving behind just its core. Imagine if you ate all your favorite foods and had nothing left to eat, so you just sat there and became very small and very dense.
Because it's so dense, WD 0145+234 has a super strong gravitational pull. This means that anything that gets too close to it is sucked in and trapped. If you were to get too close, you would never be able to escape because the gravity is too strong.
Scientists study stars like WD 0145+234 to learn more about the universe and how it works. They can use special telescopes and tools to observe the star and see what it's made of, how old it is, and how it behaves. This helps us understand more about the life cycle of stars and how they evolve over time.
The star used to be like our Sun, but it ran out of fuel and collapsed, leaving behind just its core. Imagine if you ate all your favorite foods and had nothing left to eat, so you just sat there and became very small and very dense.
Because it's so dense, WD 0145+234 has a super strong gravitational pull. This means that anything that gets too close to it is sucked in and trapped. If you were to get too close, you would never be able to escape because the gravity is too strong.
Scientists study stars like WD 0145+234 to learn more about the universe and how it works. They can use special telescopes and tools to observe the star and see what it's made of, how old it is, and how it behaves. This helps us understand more about the life cycle of stars and how they evolve over time.