White Dwarf Star's Mass Measured Using Hubble And Gravitational Microlensing

Space.com 2023-09-03

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The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA.

Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz and University of Cambridge), K. Sahu (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) / K. Bacon (STScI) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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