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Originally Posted by champion_munch
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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That is a very good question. I don't think so, since anything over 1.4 solar mass will collapse into a neutron star. But that does bring up a related question: What is the maximum size of a white dwarf? (and I don't know the answer to that one)