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What is a white dwarf in space?

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White Dwarf Stars are what stars like the sun become after they burn out all of their fuel. The stars is over 100,000 Kelvin, a hot white color, and it spends the next billion years cooling off.

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It's a little guy who sneaked on board the space station, then they threw him out the air-lock when they found him...

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B12, Nute61 etc.. are some of the rarely seen white dwarfs.

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12,742 km.

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