What Are White Dwarf Stars?
August 15, 2017
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as posted by the channelWhite dwarfs are a type of stellar corpse, the mass left over when fusion stops in a star. They would collapse on themselves under gravity if it wasn't for quantum mechanics, the Pauli exclusion principle, and electron degeneracy pressure. Here's how they work.
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