dwarf articles

Why are stars called dwarfs?

The classification of stars into categories like "dwarf" can often sound counterintuitive when we look up at the night s...

How does a star become a dwarf star?

Stars have a diverse range of endpoints dictated almost entirely by their initial mass, but the transformation into a sp...

Which is hotter, a blue giant or a white dwarf?

When examining the vastness of the cosmos, the surface temperature of a star is not always intuitively related to its ap...