White dwarf stars should be cooling down practically till the end of the Universe. But yet, they don't. They stop cooling at some point. Why does this happen? Figuring out the answers with Dr Simon Blouin from the University of Victoria.
📜 Buoyant crystals halt the cooling of white dwarf stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07102-y
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