BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

40 Eridani B

WHITE DWARF · the visible one
40 Eridani B
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SPECIAL easiest white dwarf to observe

The first white dwarf ever recognized, and still the easiest to see: any decent amateur telescope shows this Earth sized stellar ember beside its orange primary. In the 19th century its combination of tiny size and white hot surface seemed physically impossible. It took quantum mechanics to explain how a dead star holds itself up.

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