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Why doesn't a white dwarf collapse?

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The electrons within it repel each other, a white dwarf doesn't have the mass to have enough gravity to overcome that repulsion. Larger stars can force the electrons and protons to fuse to produce neutrons, turning into a neutron star and eliminating the electron pressure, this allows it to collapse further. read more

The same reason Jupiter doesn't collapse under it's own mass, there simply isn't enough of it to generate enough gravity to collapse it. By the time a star becomes a white dwarf it will have expended most of its mass. read more

White dwarf The collapse of the stellar core to a white dwarf takes place over tens of thousands of years, while the star blows off its outer envelope to form a planetary nebula. read more

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