Earthly machine recreates star's sizzling-hot surface
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 09:01
in Astronomy & Space
Since we can't go to the stars yet, let's bring the stars to us. In a giant X-ray-producing facility, astronomers and plasma physicists have heated a cigar-sized sample of gas to over 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit in order to replicate the surface of stars called white dwarfs.