White Dwarfs
Degenerate stellar remnant (C,O core)
Extremely dense:
1 teaspoon of white dwarf material: mass ≈ 16 tons!!!
white dwarfs:
Mass ~ Msun
Temp. ~ 25,000 K
Luminosity ~ 0.01 Lsun
Chunk of white dwarf
material the size of a beach ball would outweigh an ocean liner!
