Or, it seems, when you're cruising past a white dwarf star.

或者可以说在你缓慢驶过一颗白矮星时。

Micronovae happen in special binary systems with a white dwarf star possessing a strong magnetic field and a low-mass normal star.

微新星发生在特殊的双星系统中，其中一颗白矮星拥有强大的磁场，一颗质量较低的普通恒星。

We observe a large number of these white dwarf stars.

我们观察到了大量这样的白矮星。

Explanations include a gamma ray burst pointing away from the Earth, or a black hole destroying a white dwarf star.

解释包括远离地球的伽马射线爆发，或黑洞摧毁白矮星。

Stars who s cores have a mass less than 1.4  times the mass of the sun collapse into white dwarf stars.

核心质量小于太阳质量1.4倍的恒星会坍缩成白矮星。

Now, while these events are rare, some people believe that dim white dwarf stars could explode in this way, which could happen suddenly with almost no warning.

尽管这种情况鲜有发生，某些人还是相信白矮星会以这种毫无预警的形式突然爆炸。

When we look at that binary system, we see a white dwarf star that is clearly more evolved than a high mass one, the opposite of what we expect!

当我们观察这个双星系统时，我们看到的是一颗白矮星，它的进化程度明显比大质量的恒星要高，这与我们的预期相反！