Some large white dwarf stars appear to stop ageing for billions of years. Now we could know why
NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz and University of Cambridge), Ok. Sahu (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI)
Some white dwarf stars could also be frozen in time as a result of of unusual floating crystals. The crystals appear to maintain the stars from cooling as they age, so the white dwarfs look comparatively younger for billions of years.
White dwarfs kind when stars just like our solar burn via all of their gasoline and blow off their outer layers. This leaves behind a scorching core, which cools over time and finally freezes over. In…