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Compact stars include white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes
stellar remnants formed at the end of stellar evolution are compact stars
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some dwarf stars are compact stars
21 red, yellow, and orange dwarf stars are main sequence low mass stars
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22 white dwarf stars are composed of electron degenerate matter
23 black dwarf stars are white dwarfs that are no longer cooling
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24 brown dwarf stars is too small to fuse anything but deuterium
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neutron stars synthesize heavy elements when they merge
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black holes influence the evolution of stars and galaxies
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42 active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes
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