#white dwarf

[70sscifiart]

White Dwarf, October/November 1978

[oldschoolfrp]

The colorful world of Gary Chalk -- 3 scenes of battling wizards from White Dwarf 113, May 1989, from "Colleges of Magic" by Bryan Ansell and Rick Priestley with Geoff Lynas. "A new system of magic for Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Join with the wizards who follow the path of the eight colours."

[thefugitivesaint]

Emmanuel, ''White Dwarf'', #14, Aug.-Sept. 1979

[mindblowingscience]

Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning radio wave-blasting neutron star ever seen; it takes almost an hour to complete a full rotation.  That may sound rather fast, but these dead stars are known to spin so rapidly that some experience 700 full turns every second. Even the most leisurely of the about 3,000 radio-emitting neutron stars, or "pulsars," discovered so far complete a full rotation in a second or so. This ultra-leisurely neutron star, however, designated ASKAP J1935+2148 and located 16,000 light-years from Earth, is emitting radio light at a rate too slow to even fit with current theories describing the behavior of these dense stellar remnants.

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[rpgcovers]

White Dwarf #42 ~ Games Workshop (June, 1983)

[zespaceblog]

Minkowski's Butterfly

Some planetary nebula create hour glass/butterfly type displays, the atmosphere of the star released leaving a core white dwarf behind in time. That gas can create orb like constructions, and other times it's funnelled along poles into this beautiful shape.

This can sometimes be the result of a binary partner, but not in every case.

The nebula lies 2,100 light years from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

[transistoradio]

White Dwarf #150 (June 1992), with cover art — “Chaos Warrior — by Geoff Taylor.

[a-swift-and-terrible-sword]

⚔️ WAR MASTER ⚔️

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

White Dwarf #195 Cover Art by Mark Gibbons

[livingforstars]

Cocoon of a New White Dwarf - December 3rd, 1996.

"Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self. In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas would become the prettiest of all! The above cocoon, the planetary nebula designated NGC 2440, contains one of the hottest white dwarf stars known. The white dwarf can be seen as the bright dot near the photo's center. Our Sun will eventually become a "white dwarf butterfly," but not for another 5 billion years."

[human-facts]

Humans are like stars. You either live short but brilliant lives and blow up at the end in a rainbow murder bomb, or you live forever, go through a mid-life crisis, and then compress into a cold hyper pressurized diamond for the rest of reality with everyone debating if you’re dead or not.

[oldschoolfrp]

An otherworldly ethereal fae being by Fangorn (Chris Baker), back cover of White Dwarf 3, Oct/Nov 1977

[thefugitivesaint]

Alan Hunter (1923-2012), ''White Dwarf'', #38, Feb. 1983

[maybelsart]

THE WHITE DWARF

The final pin in the collection. The white dwarf is the tiny dawn of a new beginning.

Life Cycle goes live on the 28th HERE

[rpgcovers]

White Dwarf #63 ~ Games Workshop (March, 1985)

[quiltofstars]

The star Sirius, α Canis Majoris // Spencer Collins

The name Sirius comes from the Ancient Greek word seirios, meaning "glowing" or "scorcher". It may also have an etymological connection to the Egyptian god Osiris.