WordNet
n. a faint star of enormous density [syn: white dwarf]
Usage examples of "white dwarf star".
Jaina did not understand why the white dwarf star did not look like a big jewel, a huge diamond in space.
Starbase Twelve was a completely routine stop, to deliver a couple of highly ranked astrophysicists and a load of scientific equipment to record the effects of the passage of a wandering white dwarf star through the so-called Tau Eridani Cloud—.
That is, the central white dwarf star, two gas giants, and at least fifteen planetisimals, ranging in size between Earth’.
They discover a white dwarf star (slowly freezing into a perfect crystal) and a nearby black hole.
Sirius is only four times as far away and it would give us a chance to observe a white dwarf star at close range.
How could a growing appetite for tides be satisfied by a mere white dwarf star?