In 2023, a team at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory discovered one of these astronomical objects nicknamed “Janus.” Nonradial gravity mode pulsations explain the luminosity variations in one of these objects called HL Tau 76. Leon Mestel derived the relation between these objects’ cooling time and luminosity, allowing them to be used as galactic chronometers. Very late thermal pulses cause the formation of these objects’ non-DA spectral class. Nonrelativistic analysis of these objects predicts that their radius is inversely proportional to the one-third power of their mass. Novas occur due to accretion onto one of these objects in cataclysmic variables. Mergers of two of these objects cause type Ia (“one-A”) supernovas. For 10 points, stars under ten solar masses end their lives as what objects whose masses are bounded by the Chandrasekhar (“CHAN-druh-SAY-kar”) limit? ■END■
ANSWER: white dwarfs [or white dwarf stars or white dwarves or WDs; accept pulsating white dwarfs, pulsating white dwarves, variable white dwarfs, or variable white dwarves; prompt on dwarf stars or dwarfs or dwarves]
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