White Dwarfs and Degenerate Gases (10-01)

This is part of my complete intro Astronomy class. If you want to watch all the videos in the correct order, please visit my website at White Dwarfs are fascinating end states of Solar-mass (or slightly bigger) stars. Sirius “b“ is among the closest known and we know many things about these oddball planet-sized stars from the Dog Star’s dog. (Note from 04/25/19) This video features my attempt to get at what a white dwarf is and how we know what they are. I’m not 100% satisfied with it, and I’m in the process of redoing it.