How to Use white dwarf in a Sentence

white dwarf

noun

• The other is a white dwarf, the small and dense core of a dead star.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• The first type are white dwarfs, which are the remnants of sun-like stars.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Its companion star is about four times the mass of its white dwarf.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
• In the center lies the remnant of that old star – a white dwarf.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
• Instead, these stars leave behind a white dwarf.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• The star system is made up of two stars; a normal star and a white dwarf.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
• Three years ago, astronomers put a white dwarf on a scale and watched the needle move.
  — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
• In this case, the brown dwarf is 10 times less massive than the dense white dwarf.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
• What remained was its hot core in the form of the white dwarf with a mass two-thirds that of the sun.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
• Before becoming a white dwarf, the star was much like our sun.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
• Two stars, a red giant star and a white dwarf, orbit each other.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• In the center is a white dwarf, the dense, compact core of a dying star.
  — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
• Over time, the white dwarf siphons matter from its companion.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 June 2022
• Once the two stars get to the point of no return, mass will shift from one white dwarf to the other.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
• The shedding creates a region of dust and gas around the star’s core — a white dwarf.
  — Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
• Within 24 hours, Shen’s team found three white dwarfs that might fit the bill.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 8 May 2018
• The system consists of one star and a white dwarf, which is the leftover core of a dead star.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
• Black holes, white dwarfs, asteroids, planets, moons, just to name a few.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2019
• Exploding white dwarf stars may well be the last hurrah of the cosmos.
  — Dan Falk, National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
• After the sun has become a white dwarf, most of the inner planets will be gone.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
• The star system consists of a red giant star and a white dwarf locked in a close orbit.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
• Both the white dwarf and the red dwarf have their own intrinsic magnetic fields.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 June 2026
• Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth.
  — John Tufts, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
• Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
• After the nova, the white dwarf returns to its normal size, and starts the process all over again.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
• In about 5 billion years, our sun is expected to become a white dwarf.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
• Despite their diminutive size, white dwarfs are still extremely dense.
  — Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
• For small stars like our sun, that stellar remnant is a white dwarf; for the largest stars, that remnant is a black hole.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2018
• That's because a white dwarf star has about the same mass as Earth's sun, Hounsell said.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
• That's because a white dwarf star has about the same mass as Earth's sun, Hounsell said.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024