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#Bestof2022: 2/2 #Astronomy: Three Century history of White Dwarfs. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope Magazine.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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PREVIEW: What to make of Lord Ashcroft's grim-faced report of the rubble strewn battlefront? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

https://www.lordashcroft.com/2023/09/on-the-front-line-with-the-drone-war-warriors/

1916 France

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0:00.0

Hi Anna. Hi Anna. Do you have a dilemma that makes you feel totally alone?

0:05.3

Well, the good news is it's not just you.

0:08.8

I'm earning more money than him now and I don't think he likes it.

0:11.4

We've been sleeping together for the past few weeks, but she has a boyfriend.

0:14.9

I am a virgin and I'm 25 and I'm just not sure if it's normal.

0:19.6

I'm Anna Richardson and this is it can't just be me when no topic is off limits.

0:24.9

Find it wherever you're listening to this or on it can't just be me.co.uk.

0:30.0

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachel with my colleague Ken Croswell,

0:39.2

the author of The Alchemy of the Heavens, searching for meaning in the Milky Way.

0:43.7

And Ken is taking us on a tour, a trip, an adventure from the discovery of Aradani A, B, and C,

0:50.2

40 Aradani, a triple star system, and the discernment of a particular kind of star that's in Aradani.

0:59.4

What makes a white dwarf Ken?

1:01.2

How is it different from an orange dwarf and a red dwarf?

1:04.7

OK, well, let me finish my story here.

1:06.5

I have been saying that because this star, 40 Aradani A, B, is so hot, every square inch of its surface radiates enormous amounts of light,

1:15.2

much more so than every square inch of the sun surface.

1:18.3

And yet, as we've been noting, this star in total emits very little light in this space.

1:23.6

So how can it be that such a very hot star can emit so little light

1:29.0

into space when every square inch of its surface is radiating so profusely?

1:34.4

And the answer is, 40 Aradani A, B, surface must have very few square inches.

1:39.8

In other words, the star is tiny.

1:41.9

In fact, the star is about the same diameter as the Earth.

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