Latest Space Breaking News: First pairs of white dwarf–main sequence binaries discovered in clusters shine new light on stellar evolution
Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-pairs-white-dwarfmain-sequence-binaries.html
Summary: Astronomers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have discovered the first pairs of white dwarf and main sequence stars—"dead" remnants and "living" stars—in young star clusters. Described in a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, this breakthrough offers new insights into an extreme phase of stellar evolution, and one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics.