New Way to Weigh a White Dwarf: Use Hubble Space Telescope (IMAGE)

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New Way to Weigh a White Dwarf: Use Hubble Space Telescope

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This drawing shows the observed versus actual positions of a distant star whose light is distorted by the curvature of space around a heavy star that is between the distant star and the observer. In this case, the observer is the Hubble Space Telescope.

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NASA, ESA, and K. Sahu (STScI)

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