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

如今，研究人员已经确定了如下雨般落在两颗星上多岩石、类似于小行星物质。

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

宇宙会变得越来越暗淡，仅由较小红星和星照亮（快太阳灰渣）。

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

从某种程度上说，星是一颗虽然已经萎缩，但仍旧不服老高龄恒星。

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

比如说，萨里大学本-穆迪一直在“制作”星。

And in the center is a white dwarf.

中间是一颗星。

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

“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——星。

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

这个物体质量太大，不可能是星或中子星。

It contains two gravitationally linked stars – a white dwarf and a red giant.

它包含两颗引力相互作用恒星——一颗星和一颗红巨星。

NASA describes a white dwarf as the remains of an Earth-sized star that died.

美国国家航空航天局将星描述为一颗地球大小恒星死亡后残骸。

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

以及中子星、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星。

Essentially they are White Dwarf stars that become nuclear bombs.

其实它们就是变成核弹星。

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星，想弄明这种理论是否真正确。

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

恒星坍缩，外层膨胀，恒星变成了星。

White Dwarf stars sometimes have other stars orbiting nearby.

星附近有时候有别恒星环绕。

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，留下一颗星。

The high mass star has lost its outer layers, and is a dense white dwarf.

这颗大质量恒星已经失去了外层，成为了一颗致密星。