| 1. | As a slowly contracting dwarf the star may remain luminous for billions of years .
收缩较慢的白矮星仍会发光几十亿年。 |
| 2. | A few stars on the road to dwarfhood flare up briefly from time to time .
有些星星在演变为白矮星的过程中，不时地隐隐闪烁。 |
| 3. | White dwarfs provide an important beginning for understanding the material in this chapter .
白矮星是掌握本章材料的重要出发点。 |
| 4. | White dwarfs compact much of the mass of the stars into a volume the size of the earth .
白矮星将其大部分质量紧密地聚集在相当地球大小的范围内。 |
| 5. | The nova phenomenon generally occurs in a binary system that has as one member a very hot white dwarf .
新星这种现象一般发生在双星系统中，其中一颗子星是非常热的白矮星。 |
| 6. | Such diverse objects as red giants and white dwarfs would seem to be genetically related to each other .
象红巨星和白矮星这样迥然不同的天体，竟然彼此之间有起源上的联系。 |
| 7. | As the main-sequence mass of the star increases, the mass of the final remnant left as a white-dwarf star also increases .
在恒星在主序的质量增加时，作为白矮星留下来的最终残骸的质量也增加。 |
| 8. | One was a decision to name pluto a dwarf planet
其中一个就是决定将冥王星命名为“白矮星” 。 |
| 9. | After it has radiated away all its residue energy , it becomes a
当白矮星把所有能量辐射完毕，它便会成为 |
| 10. | Ben oppenheimer led the research team that discovered the white dwarfs
本?奥本海姆领导发现这些白矮星的研究小组。 |
