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Contact: Dr. Boris Gänsicke
Boris.Gaensicke@warwick.ac.uk
44-024-765-74741
University of Warwick
Caption: Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy of this inconspicuous blue object -- SDSS1102+2054 -- reveals it to be an extremely rare stellar remnant: a white dwarf with an oxygen-rich atmosphere
Credit: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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