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Correction to prior post: 🧪To forge iron in its core, a star needs to be about 8x the mass of our Sun (which will end its life as a ultra-dense ball of carbon: a white dwarf). FYI, the coolest and dimmest white dwarf known is -in effect- an Earth-size cosmic diamond. public.nrao.edu/news/cold-wh...
Feb 24, 2025, 7:53 PM
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