Now researchers have identified rocky, asteroidlike material raining down on two white dwarfs.

如今，研究人员定了如下雨般落在两颗白矮上的多岩石的、类似于小行的物质。

The universe becomes dimmer and dimmer, illuminated only by smaller red and white dwarfs.

宇宙会变得越来越暗淡，仅由较小的红矮和白矮照亮（快烧尽的太阳灰渣）。

Dr Murdin built his own little white dwarf to see if the theory looked good.

穆迪博士建造了他自己的小白矮，想弄明白这理论是否真的正。

Ben Murdin of the University of Surrey, for example, has been making white dwarfs.

比如说，萨里大学的本-穆迪一直在“制作”白矮。

And in the center is a white dwarf.

中间是一颗白矮。

A white dwarf is the hot and dense center of a burned out star.

白矮是一颗燃烧殆尽的的炽热而密集的中心。

The white dwarf's gravity is so powerful it can suck hydrogen off of that companion.

“白矮的引力非常强，以致于会吸取同伴的氢元素。

We now call such stars -- white dwarfs.

我们现在称这为——白矮。

The object was too massive to be a white dwarf or a neutron star.

这个物体的质量太大，不可能是白矮或中子。

In a nova, the white dwarf remains active after the event.

在新中，白矮在事件发生后仍然活跃。

And how neutron stars, white dwarfs and black holes are created in the first place.

以及中子、白矮和黑洞最初是如何形成的。

Or, it seems, when you're cruising past a white dwarf star.

或者可以说在你缓慢驶过一颗白矮时。

White dwarfs—the ultimate destiny of stars like the sun—maximize the pollution signal.

类似太阳一样终极命运的白矮使得污染的信号最大化。

Smaller stars like the sun leave behind what are called white dwarves.

像太阳这样较小的会留下白矮。

White Dwarf stars sometimes have other stars orbiting nearby.

白矮附近有时候有别的环绕。

The white dwarf's gravity can pull hydrogen gas from the companion star's surface.

白矮的引力可以将氢气从伴表面拉出来。

The star collapses, the outer part expands, and the star becomes something called a White Dwarf.

坍缩，外层膨胀，变成了白矮。

The glow in a planetary nebula is due to the hot central white dwarf exciting the gas.

行状云中的光芒是由中央炽热的白矮激发气体产生的。

That planet eating balloon deflates 9.5 billion years down the line, leaving a white dwarf in its place.

这个吃人气球将在95亿年后彻底收缩，留下一颗白矮。

A white dwarf is the stellar equivalent of a shrunken but feisty old-age pensioner.

从某程度上说，白矮是一颗虽然萎缩，但仍旧不服老的高龄。