单词white dwarf
na.: 【天】白矮星
白矮星（密度大，处于演化末期的一类恒星）:
a small star that is near the end of its life and is very dense (= solid and heavy)
【天文学】白矮星
Badenes"s team examined archival observations and found a white dwarf and neutron star orbiting one another extremely closely.
Badenes的团队试验档案观测并发现白色小的中子星体非常近的围绕另一个运转。
An astronomer makes the case that the best place to search for habitable planets may be very close to white dwarf stars.
一位天文学家提出了一种新想法，在靠近白矮星的地方找最寻适合生命居住的行星。
A white dwarf is a "dead" star that doesn"t generate its own energy like the sun does, Provencal says.
Provencal表示，白矮星是一颗“死”恒星，不像太阳那样自己生成能量。
The center of that star then transformed into a white dwarf , at once very hot (more than 100, 000 Kelvin) and very small.
恒星的中心变成了白矮星，曾经非常热（10万K）非常小。
It"s about as massive as Jupiter, but much more compact. It may be the remains of a carbon-rich white dwarf star.
这颗星球体积和木星差不多，但密度更高，很可能是富含碳的白矮星的残余物。
otherwise, it will simply contract until electron degeneracy pressure halts its collapse, thus directly turning into a white dwarf.
否则，它将单纯的收缩，直到电子简并压力阻止重力的崩溃，然后直接转变成为白矮星。
A white dwarf is the inert remnant of what used to be a sunlike star.
白矮星是类似太阳的恒星在死亡后所留下恒久不变的残骸。
Part of a binary star system, the compact white dwarf gradually captured material from its companion star.
作为一个双星系统的一部分，这颗致密的白矮星慢慢地从它的伴星上吸积物质。
In the former case, material is stripped from the binary partner until the material reaches "critical mass" around the white dwarf.
在前面一种情况，物质将被从一颗双星剥离掉直到在白矮星的物质到达了“严格的标准质量”。
As the main-sequence mass of the star increases, the mass of the final remnant left as a white-dwarf star also increases.
在恒星在主序的质量增加时，作为白矮星留下来的最终残骸的质量也增加。