Exploring the likelihood of life around white dwarf stars

Exploring the likelihood of life around white dwarf stars

Florida Tech’s Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in astrobiology in 2023, he’s fascinated by white dwarf stars—the cooling remnants of low-mass stars (e.g., our sun) that have exhausted their nuclear fuel source—and the likelihood of life surviving in their orbits. Florida Tech’s Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in astrobiology in 2023, he’s fascinated by white dwarf stars—the cooling remnants of low-mass stars (e.g., our sun) that have exhausted their nuclear fuel source—and the likelihood of life surviving in their orbits. Astrobiology Planetary Sciences Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories

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