White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of stars whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star or black hole.

Apr 25, 2023 · White dwarfs are the hot, dense remnants of long-dead stars. They are stellar cores, left behind when stars exhaust their fuel supplies and blow their gases into space.

Jan 15, 2025 · White dwarf star, any of a class of faint stars representing the endpoint of the evolution of intermediate- and low-mass stars. White dwarf stars are characterized by a low …

White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used as nuclear fuel. Fusion in a star's core produces heat and outward pressure, but this...

Mar 4, 2022 · White dwarfs are what is left when stars like our sun have exhausted all of their fuel. They are dense, dim, stellar corpses — the last observable stage of evolution for low- and...

Sep 23, 2021 · A white dwarf is what stars like the Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel. Near the end of its nuclear burning stage, this type of star expels most of its outer …

This is a list of exceptional white dwarf stars. An extensive database of all known white dwarfs and their properties is available in the Montreal White Dwarf Database. [1]

White dwarfs are the final evolutionary state of all stars whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star. Over 97% of the stars in the Milky Way will become white dwarf stars. …

Jun 12, 2020 · White dwarf stars are composed out of one of the densest forms of matter known in the universe, surpassed by only other compact stars such as neutron stars, black holes, and …

A low or medium mass star (with mass less than about 8 times the mass of our Sun) will become a white dwarf. A typical white dwarf is about as massive as the Sun, yet only slightly bigger …