STARS DISCOVERED
THE “WHITE DWARFS.” LONDON, Oct. 13. The discovery of the stars known as the “White Dwarfs,” weighing 1,000,000 tons per pinhead, was announced yesterday at Edinburgh. The eminent astronomer, Sir James Jeans, in announcing his discovery when delivering the Royal Astronomical Society’s Lorimer lecture at Edinburgh, explained that the White Dwarfs were the central stars of the planetary nebulae. As Amazing as their desnity, he said, was their heat. They were the hottest stars and their heat he estimated at 60,000 degrees centigrade. A piece the size of a postage stamp would be sufficient to drive the liner Queen
Mary. He estimated their density at 36,000,000 times that of water. On a model of the universe, to the scale of one inch to 1,000,000 light years, stars which could be seen with the eye would be the size of a speck of dust. Those seen with a telescope would be 80 feet in diameter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 276, 20 October 1938, Page 9
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