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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 How Do Stars Really Die? Scientific American Science 5 August, 2024 | 1524 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ There’s more than one way for a star to die. Some go with a whimper, and some go with a very, very big bang Very soon now, possibly in a few days, though more likely in the next few weeks, a new star will appear in our sky—except it’s really an old star. Called T Coronae Borealis (or T Cor Bor), it’s a binary system composed of a huge red giant star and a tiny white dwarf. Though small, white dwarfs are vicious: They pack much of a solar-type star’s mass into an approximately Earth-sized sphere. This makes them terrifically dense and hot, and they possess a fierce gravitational attraction. The white dwarf in T Cor Bor is slowly drawing hydrogen and other gases off the red giant, piling up all that pilfered material on its surface. Eventually enough will accumulate that the immense gravity will fuse the hydrogen, detonat
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