00:04Scientists have found an unusual white dwarf hurtling across our galaxy that may have survived a supernova.
00:10A new study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests the exploding star blasted itself
00:17out of its orbit with another star in a partial supernova and lived to tell the tale.
00:22The University of Warwick researchers studied the white dwarf with a weird atmospheric composition that's traveling at about 560,000
00:31miles per hour.
00:32They think it was in a binary system that survived its thermonuclear supernova explosion.
00:37The star likely ejected a lot of its mass, which flung both stars in opposite directions in a kind of
00:43slingshot maneuver.
00:44With the Hubble Space Telescope, they found some elements created during the initial thermonuclear reactions of a supernova, but it's
00:51missing other elements found in these explosions.
00:54So scientists think it only went through a partial supernova and it was a type that they haven't seen before.
01:00This could mean there are other supernova survivors out there and other types of supernova that scientists have yet to
01:06uncover.
