Astronomers find first green white dwarf star, 326 light-years away

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAstronomers at the University of Warwick say they have found the first green star, and the headlines are calling it a zombie.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLola Cruz is standing by tonight.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI'm standing in a dark observatory parking lot, looking up at nothing, because the star is three hundred twenty-six light-years away and not visible to me.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentIt's called WD J1330 plus 6435, and it's a white dwarf, the leftover core of a star that ran out of fuel.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentResearchers say the green comes from sodium in its atmosphere, which absorbs the orange part of the light.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI've covered ugly standoffs, and this is the first one where the culprit is table salt. I found a local man.

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   Walt RuzickaYes, I've read about it, and no, I'm not scared. A zombie eats things.

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   Walt RuzickaThis one is covered in dust, and my garage is also covered in dust, and nobody calls my garage undead.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentSo the researchers say debris, not a swallowed planet?

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    Walt RuzickaRight. Dusty, dead, and green. My uncle Walt is the same, minus the green.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the zombie is a dead star with a sodium problem. Rex, anything dead on your beat that's still showing up?