white dwarf
noun
plural white dwarfs
: a small hot whitish star of low intrinsic brightness usually with a mass approximately equal to that of the sun but with a density many times larger
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Their proximity allows material to flow from the subgiant to the white dwarf.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
That appears to be what happened some 4000 light-years away, allowing a planet similar in mass and orbital position to slide twice as far from its star, surviving the star’s expansion into a red giant and subsequent contraction into a white dwarf.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
At that point, a thermonuclear explosion blasts the remaining material off the white dwarf, and the cycle resets.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
The Blaze Star has become a white dwarf, which happens when stars have exhausted their nuclear fuels.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
That appears to be what happened some 4000 light-years away, allowing a planet similar in mass and orbital position to slide twice as far from its star, surviving the star’s expansion into a red giant and subsequent contraction into a white dwarf.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
At that point, a thermonuclear explosion blasts the remaining material off the white dwarf, and the cycle resets.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
The Blaze Star has become a white dwarf, which happens when stars have exhausted their nuclear fuels.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20dwarf. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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