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A white dwarf is a very dense type of star: in an Earth-sized volume, it packs a mass that is comparable to the Sun. A white dwarf radiates light from residual heat, not from nuclear fusion. Stars like the Sun, whose mass is not high enough to collapse into a neutron star or black hole, are expected to become white dwarf stars later in their...

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Spectral class
Stellar evolution
astronomical object type
physical theory
Subclass of
Dwarf star
Compact object
Part of
Binary star
Follows
Post-AGB star
Different from
A-type main-sequence star
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