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Astronomy · L4 · White Dwarfs: Electron Degeneracy Pressure & the Chandrasekhar Limit
How the Pauli exclusion principle supports white dwarfs, why more massive white dwarfs are smaller, and why 1.4 M☉ is a hard ceiling.
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