GALEXJ014636.8+323615 (IMAGE)

Royal Astronomical Society

GALEXJ014636.8+323615

Caption

This is an artist's impression of the hot white dwarf GALEXJ014636.8+323615 (white) and its ultra-hot circumstellar magnetosphere (purple) trapped with the magnetic field (green).

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N. Reindl

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