UVic Physics & Astro
@PHASTatUVIC
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy @ University of Victoria -- particle physics / astronomy / medical physics / theoretical physics / ocean physics / condensed matter
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Really exciting #astrophysics research from our own ARC-UVic UVic Physics & Astro CITA Fellow Simon Blouin shows how floating crystals shake up the internal gravitational energy content of #WhiteDwarfs and delays their ultimate death by billions of years nature.com/articles/s4158…
🚨 Nature paper alert!
UVic Physics & Astro researcher Simon Blouin and colleagues have revealed the mechanism by which some white dwarf stars stop cooling.
doi.org/10.1038/s41586…