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What Is the Size of a Typical White Dwarf?

April 26, 2017Dwarf size white

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What Is the Size of a Typical White Dwarf?

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A white dwarf is the end of the line for a star of a certain size–a star like our Earth’s life-giving Sun. For a star, a white dwarf may seem small, especially compared to some other stellar phenomenon, such as red giants. But its size is deceiving–a white dwarf weighs much, much more than similar objects in the solar system that are the same size.