Degeneracy pressure is the source of the pressure that stops the crush of gravity in all the following except

A) a brown dwarf.
B) a white dwarf.
C) a neutron star.
D) a very massive main-sequence star.
E) the central core of the Sun after hydrogen fusion ceases but before helium fusion begins.


D

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