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With Hubble, astronomers measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf – which is the surviving core of a burned-out star.

The white dwarf, called LAWD 37, is 56% the mass of our Sun: https://go.nasa.gov/3l31XyZ

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For the First Time Hubble Directly Measures Mass of a Lone White Dwarf

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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