A rotating white dwarf shows different compositions on its opposite faces.
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White dwarfs, the extremely dense remnants left behind by most stars after their death, are characterized by a mass comparable to that of the Sun compressed into the size of an Earth-like planet. ...
White dwarfs, the extremely dense remnants left behind by most stars after their death, are characterized by a mass comparable to tha …