{"id":327047,"date":"2017-06-07T14:26:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170607142604.htm"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:26:04","slug":"century-old-relativity-experiment-used-to-measure-a-white-dwarfs-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=327047","title":{"rendered":"Century-old relativity experiment used to measure a white dwarf&#8217;s mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity. The team measured the mass of white dwarf Stein 2051 B, the burned-out remnant of a normal star, by seeing how much it deflects the light from a background star. The gravitational microlensing method data provide a solid estimate of the white dwarf\u2019s mass and yield insights into theories of the structure and composition of the burned-out star. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA&rsquo;s Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein&rsquo;s general theory of relativity. The team measured the mass of white dwarf Stein 2051 B, the burned-out remnant of a normal star, by seeing how much it deflects the light from a background star. The gravitational microlensing method data provide a solid estimate of the white dwarf&rsquo;s mass and yield insights into theories of the structure and composition of the burned-out star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327048,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327047\/revisions\/327048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}