Smallest, densest white dwarf ever discovered packs the sun's mass into a moon-size stellar corpse

Smallest, densest white dwarf ever discovered packs the sun's mass into a moon-size stellar corpse
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Astronomers may have discovered the smallest and heaviest white dwarf star ever seen, a smoldering ember about the size of our moon but 450,000 times more massive than Earth, a new study finds.



July 2, 2021 at 12:52AM
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