Stephanie 🎀I drew this in 2020, posted it on the birdsite, and it went viral (at least by my standards!), earning me 250 new followers.
It shows how much battery various stars would have left if they had battery indicators like phones do. #MastoArt
Rik Lonsdale@BeamsAndBows Love it. Is the state of Sirius B due to absorption by Sirius A greater gravitational field?
@rik_lonsdale Sirius B was initially more massive than Sirius A, and therefore had a shorter lifetime. It wasn’t massive enough to go supernova, though, hence why a white dwarf remains (as opposed to a neutron star or black hole). I’m not sure about mass exchange between the two stars.
@BeamsAndBows Thank you very much for this response. I know the original post is a little dated, but your graphic threw the question into my head. I believe they are a binary system, are they not?
@rik_lonsdale they are 🎀