Star almost the size: A new white dwarf star has been discovered that is almost as big as the moon, making it the smallest example of a star ever discovered.
According to private TV Express News, a white dwarf star is the remnant that larger stars leave behind when they collapse. During this process, these large stars lose a lot of their size. The radius of the recently discovered dwarf star is only 2,100 kilometers (1,305 miles), which is actually close to the radius of the moon, which is about 1,700 kilometers.
Most white dwarf stars are about the size of Earth, with a radius of about 6,300 kilometers (3,900 miles). But surprisingly, this dwarf star is 1.3 times the mass (weight) of the Sun, making it one of the most massive white dwarfs.
You may wonder how the smallest white dwarf star can be heavier than our sun, but the truth is that we usually consider larger objects to be heavier, but as white dwarf stars get smaller, they weigh more.