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white dwarfs

n. (white dwarf English)

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The remnants of large stars -white dwarfs and neutron stars - were quite satisfactory, and so were immature stars: the brown dwarfs and Jovian gas planets which were warm but not quite large enough for fusion to be initiated.

Inhospitable places like red giants and the burnt-out cinders of white dwarfs, whose planets have no future.

Many more are likely to become known in coming decades, around ordinary Sun-like stars as well as white dwarfs, pulsars, and other end states of stellar evolution.

Some white dwarfs, properly considered, are vast stellar crystals able to hold up the weight of the overlying layers of the star.

All the elements of the Earth except hydrogen and some helium have been cooked by a kind of stellar alchemy billions of years ago in stars, some of which are today inconspicuous white dwarfs on the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Anyone living down there-perched deep within the white dwarfs steep gravitational well-would experience profound tidal forces, tugging and stretching every living cell.

The lesser ones evolved into red giants, sank down to white dwarfs, radiated away that energy too.

They sent out expeditions to study novae and supernovae and neutron stars and white dwarfs and pulsars.