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New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star Saturday, May 03, 2008 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star, with the help of the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory. The discovery is announced in today's issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. This research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center. (source: nsf.gov)
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