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The Coolest White- Dwarf: Surveys Have Been Carried Out to Identify

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The coolest white- dwarf: Surveys have been carried out to identify isolated white- dwarfs throughout the galaxy and its globular clusters. They have been found to span a range of temperatures, with a sharp lower limit of about 3000 K (i.e. many have been found at all temperatures from 10s of thousands of Kelvin down to 3000K, but none cooler). What does this observation reveal about the age of our galaxy?


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