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| the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf (equals 1.4 times the mass of the Sun) |
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| a gas that resists further compression because no two electrons can be in the same place at the same time doing the same thing (Pauli exclusion principle) |
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| a compact object of extremely high density composed almost entirely of neutrons |
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| a stellar explosion produced at the endpoint of the evolution of stars whose mass exceeds roughly 10 times the mass of the Sun |
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