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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae

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Today Phil follows up last week's look at the death of low mass stars with what comes next: a white dwarf. White dwarfs are incredibly hot and dense objects roughly the size of Earth. They also can form planetary nebulae: huge, intricately detailed objects created when the wind blown from the dying stars is lit up by the central white dwarf. [11:09]

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