white dwarf

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The dim, highly dense core remnant that is the final stage in the evolution of a star of low or medium mass, after nuclear reactions have ceased.

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white dwarf white dwarfs white dwarves

Coined by Dutch astronomer Willem Luyten in 1922.

blue giant red giant yellow dwarf red dwarf brown dwarf black dwarf blue dwarf

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