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A white dwarf is what remains after a star like our Sun dies and sheds its outer layers—a extremely dense, Earth-sized object made of tightly packed matter. These stellar remnants matter to astronomers because studying them helps reveal the life cycles of stars and can be used to measure cosmic distances.
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- Subclass of
- dwarf star
- Part of
- binary star
- Follows
- post-AGB star
- Image
- PSR J0348+0432.jpg
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- different from
- A-type main sequence star
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- Category:White dwarfs
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- physics.stackexchange.com/tags/white-dwarfs
- develops from
- main sequence
- end cause
- type Ia supernova
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