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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
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What white dwarf star has almost the mass of our Sun, but is only about four times as large as Earth? Packs a punch.  |
Are you sure about those numbers? That seems far too large. Sirius B has nearly the mass of the sun and is roughly the size of earth. Also the maximum mass for a white dwarf is about 1.4 solar masses. |
My understanding was that a white dwarf was usually about the size of Earth. 4 times the size of the Earth? That means we're speaking the size of Neptune/Uranus. Are there really any white dwarfs that large?
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