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| After a while, the planetary nebula will disperse into space, go away and only the tiny core will remain. When the envelope was expanding into a nebula, the core was contracting. As it contracts, it heats up even more and becomes white-hot. At that point it is called a **white dwarf**. This is the final fate of a poor star like our sun. | After a while, the planetary nebula will disperse into space, go away and only the tiny core will remain. When the envelope was expanding into a nebula, the core was contracting. As it contracts, it heats up even more and becomes white-hot. At that point it is called a **white dwarf**. This is the final fate of a poor star like our sun. | ||
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| But if a star is more massive, the fate will be different as you see in the lower panels of the diagram above. | But if a star is more massive, the fate will be different as you see in the lower panels of the diagram above. | ||
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