HM Cancri
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hm-cancri-183-3326952
title:
HM Cancri
text:
HM Cancri is a binary star system about 1,600 light-years away. It comprises two dense white dwarfs orbiting each other once every 5.4 minutes, at an estimated distance of only 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) apart. The two stars orbit each other at speeds in excess of 400 kilometres per second (890,000 mph). The stars are estimated to be about half as massive as the Sun. Like typical white dwarfs, they are extremely dense, being composed of degenerate matter, and so have radii on the order of the
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Binary star in the constellation Cancer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Cancri
date created:
2007-04-04T13:26:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T00:43:36Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1500111","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1500111"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/J0806_%28binary_star_-_artist%27s_conception%29.jpg","width":2160,"height":1440}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16