White+dwarf


 * White Dwarf** A white dwarf (or Degenerate Dwarf) is an extremely dense star (200,000 times as dense as the earth). It is the final evolutionary stage of smaller stars, formed when a main sequence star becomes a red giant, but has an insufficient mass to fuse carbon, so it will shed its outer layers and become a white dwarf. It was first discovered in 1910 by Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering and Williamina Fleming. There is thought that white dwarfs may someday become black dwarfs, but these have not yet been discovered. The only more dense forms of matter are Neutron Stars and Black Holes!

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So the question is, Would a white dwarf be able to sustain human life? The answer to that is most likely no. Its temperature would be too high for a human to deal with, the lowest being just less than 6000K. Another reason is that there is a //very// unlikely chance that there could be water (the basic substance to sustain human life) on a white dwarf, as heat evaporates water, and, as I have previously mentioned, the heat of a white dwarf is extraordinarily extreme!!

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