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orbiting white dwarf stars
An artist's conception of two orbiting white dwarf stars, showing schematically that they radiate gravitational waves as they orbit each other. Scientists have found a newly discovered white dwarf pair that will merge in about 37 million years to be reborn again as a normal star.
Credit: Tod Strohmayer (GSFC), CXC, NASA, Illustration: Dana Berry (CXC)
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