Earth and Space

Small but very hot

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White dwarfs can be very small, some just half the radius of the Earth, yet the stars can reach incredibly high temperatures of up to 200,000 K. It is estimated that around 10% of all stars are white dwarfs though this figure is speculative as the stars are hard to detect.

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