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Legira stars

Legira, a pair of white dwarf stars.

A white dwarf, in stellar classification, is a type of star.

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A white dwarf is a form of white star that is classified as a dwarf star. Observations of white dwarfs shows that they are relatively small in size, and glow with an intense white light.[citation needed]

A white dwarf has a habitable zone ranging from 0.25 to 0.42 AU and a system boundary at 25.6 AU. Such stars previously went through a red giant phase, and planets orbiting such stars were subjected to intense heat at that time. These stars range in age from 4 to 24 billion years. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)

Preserver obelisks were constructed from a compound which only exists in nature at the heart of a white dwarf star. (TOS novel: Preserver)

The smallest known star in the 20th century was LP 327-186, a white dwarf with a diameter of about 1,000 miles. (TOS - Star Trek Annual 1986 comic: "Star Facts")

When a rogue neutron star and a rogue white dwarf pass each other, massive gravitational disruptions can create an unstable wormhole. (TNG - Strange New Worlds II short story: "Reciprocity")

In 2269, a prototype phase cloak successfully hid the USS Enterprise from Galileo II near a white dwarf. When it malfunctioned, Spock had to predict the starship's location in order to get close enough to open the shuttle bay doors remotely. (TOS - Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment comic: "Part 1")

The USS Rio Grande once lost power near a white dwarf star. (DS9 - Section 31 novel: Abyss)

In 2374, USS Voyager attempted to destroy a white dwarf. (VOY - String Theory novel: Fusion)

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Stellar classification
By class and type class O blue-violet starclass B blue starclass A blue-white starclass F white star (white dwarf) • class G yellow star (yellow dwarfyellow giant) • class K orange star (orange giant) • class M red star (red dwarfred giant) • boson starbrown dwarfgreen starN-type starR-type starS-type starD-type star
By size or makeup black hole/black starcarbon stardwarf star (brown dwarfred dwarfwhite dwarfyellow dwarf) • giant star (blue giantred giantorange giantyellow giant) • Lazarus starmicrostarneutron star (collapsarmagnetarpulsar) • protostarsupergiant starvariable starwhite holeWolf-Rayet star

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