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

如今，研究人员已确定了如下雨般落在两颗白矮星上多岩石、类似于小行星质。

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

宇宙会变得越来越暗淡，仅由较小红矮星和白矮星照亮（快烧尽太阳灰渣）。

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小白矮星，想弄明白这种理论是否真正确。

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

比如说，萨里大本-穆迪一直在“制作”白矮星。

And in the center is a white dwarf.

中间是一颗白矮星。

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

白矮星是一颗燃烧殆尽恒星炽热而密集中心。

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

“白矮星引力非常强，以致于会吸取同伴氢元素。

We now call such stars -- white dwarfs.

我们现在称这种恒星为——白矮星。

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

这个质量太大，不可能是白矮星或中子星。

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

在新星中，白矮星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.

以及中子星、白矮星和黑洞最初是如何形成。

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星时。

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

类似太阳一样终极命运恒星白矮星使得污染信号最大化。

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

像太阳这样较小恒星会留下白矮星。

White Dwarf stars sometimes have other stars orbiting nearby.

白矮星附近有时候有别恒星环绕。

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

白矮星引力可以将氢气从伴星表面拉出来。

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

恒星坍缩，外层膨胀，恒星变成了白矮星。

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

行星状星云中光芒是由中央炽热白矮星激发气产生。

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，留下一颗白矮星。

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

从某种程度上说，白矮星是一颗虽然已萎缩，但仍旧不服老高龄恒星。