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white dwarf star

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Noun1.white dwarf star - a faint star of enormous density
star - (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior


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Diamonds in space are formed from supernovas and in white dwarf stars, which have cores of crystallized carbon and oxygen.
For several years, UCLA astronomers have studied GD 362, a peculiarly dirty white dwarf star 165 light-years away in the constellation Hercules.
5 million light years away - and the Ring Nebula, a dying white dwarf star surrounded by fluorescing gas.
 
 
 
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