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White Dwarfs Might Be Less Dead Than We Thought


The standard theory says that white dwarfs are the dead cores of main sequence stars. They're out of fuel and cooling off to the background temperature of the Universe. But now observations show that white dwarfs are surprisingly warm, even though they

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