White Dwarf (Noun)
Meaning
A faint star of enormous density.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The star had long since exhausted its fuel, leaving behind a white dwarf that glowed with the faint light of residual heat.
- A white dwarf is formed when a star like our sun exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses under its own gravity.
- As the star aged and shed its outer layers, it began its transformation into a white dwarf, slowly cooling over millions of years.
- Astronomers detected the faint signature of a white dwarf in the stellar remnant, its enormous density a testament to its intense gravitational collapse.
- The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a white dwarf, showcasing the tiny, incredibly dense star that was once the core of a much larger celestial body.