ASTRONOMERS HAVE DISCOVERED THE FIRST GREEN STAR! Yes, an actual green star. And somehow, the explanation involves a dead star eating the remains of its own planetary system.
For years, astronomers believed that stars couldn't actually appear green to the human eye. But researchers at the University of Warwick have identified a white dwarf called WD J1330+6435, located approximately 280 light-years away in the constellation Draco, that would have a ghostly chartreuse-green glow if we could see it up close.
And the reason is wonderfully bizarre.
This dead star has accumulated rocky debris from its former planetary system, introducing elements including sodium into its incredibly dense atmosphere. Those elements absorb certain colors of light, leaving behind a distinctly green appearance.
Because evidently dying stars can develop a Mountain Dew phase.
Even better, the researchers found that some white dwarfs could appear PINK, PURPLE, YELLOW, or CYAN! One star even has a distinctly salmon-pink appearance.
In this video, we're talking about this remarkable astronomy discovery, how white dwarf stars work, why scientists once believed green stars were impossible, and how the remains of dead planetary systems can produce some of the strangest colors in the universe.
And yes, we're going to have some fun with the fact that the universe has apparently been hiding an entire cosmic box of crayons.
NOTE: The colorful stars and science-fiction environments shown in this video are artistic visualizations, not actual photographs of these stars. Their colors were calculated from astronomical spectra and models of human color vision.
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SOURCES
University of Warwick: Green, Pink and Purple: Astronomers Reveal the Surprising True Colours of White Dwarf Stars
https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/astronomers-reveal-true-colours-of-white-dwarf-stars/
Original scientific study: Any Colour You Like: The Diverse Chromaticities of White Dwarfs, RAS Techniques and Instruments (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1093/rasti/rzag069
Reuters: Newly Identified Green Star Leaves Astronomers Amazed
https://www.reuters.com/science/newly-identified-green-star-leaves-astronomers-amazed-2026-10-16/
BBC Sky at Night: Scientists Have Found a Green Star
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/green-star-white-dwarf-discovery
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