This white dwarf is hotter than the rest

A scorcher of a dead star sizzles at 250,000 degrees Celsius

Large Magellanic Cloud

HOT STUFF  Head toward the Large Magellanic Cloud, seen in this 1987 picture from the NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory, to get to the hottest known white dwarf.

NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory

The heat is on in the outskirts of the Milky Way.