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Categories: Articles with short description, Neutron stars, White dwarfs, Astrophysics, Stellar dynamics
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Chandrasekhar limit  Chandasekhar Limit  Chandra Limit  Chandrasekar limit  Chandrasekhar's limit
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The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. Wikipedia
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The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. Wikipedia
Maximum nonrotating mass that can be supported against gravitational collapse by electron degeneracy pressure, named for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who discovered and improved upon the accuracy of the calculation in 1930 Wikipedia Disambiguation
Maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star Wikidata
The maximum theoretical mass of a white dwarf, approximately 1.4 solar masses. Wiktionary
Maximum theoretical mass of a white dwarf. Wiktionary (translation)
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limit
PART OF
stellar physics
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star
white dwarf
type Ia supernova
NAMED AFTER
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Chandasekhar Limit, Chandra Limit, Chandrasekar limit, Chandrasekhar's limit, Chandrasekhar Limit, Chandrasekhar mass, Chandrasekhar mass limit, Chandrashekar Limit, Chandrashekhar limit

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