What is a white dwarf?

A) a star that follows a period-luminosity relation
B) a type of star that produces energy by gravitational contraction
C) a main-sequence star of spectral type F, which tends to look white in color
D) the remains of a star that ran out of fuel for nuclear fusion


D

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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