White Dwarf | Vibepedia

A white dwarf is an extremely dense star that radiates light from residual heat, formed when a star like the Sun exhausts its nuclear fuel and sheds its outer layers. With masses comparable to the Sun but sizes similar to Earth, white dwarfs are among the densest objects in the universe. The study of white dwarfs has been shaped by pioneers like Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who developed a physical model of these stars and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.