What happened
Astronomers led by Mark Hollands at the University of Warwick say WD J1330+6435 is the first known star that would appear green to human eyes. Newstro explains the white dwarf’s atmosphere, its sodium-rich rocky debris, and how measured spectra can be translated into perceived color.
This is a modeled human-eye color inferred from existing starlight data, not a close-up photograph or a star newly turning green. All stellar scenes are labeled illustrations; the colored spheres are simulations. The nearby sample of 151 white dwarfs contained five unusually colored stars — two yellow and three pink — with the green object discussed separately.
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