Here's a breakdown:
* Red Giant: A red giant is a star that has exhausted its hydrogen fuel in its core and has expanded significantly.
* White Dwarf: After a red giant sheds its outer layers, the remaining core collapses into a very dense, hot, and small star called a white dwarf. It is primarily composed of carbon and oxygen, and it no longer undergoes nuclear fusion.
* Density: White dwarfs are incredibly dense, packing the mass of our sun into a volume roughly the size of Earth.
* Cooling: White dwarfs gradually cool over billions of years, eventually becoming faint white dwarfs and then black dwarfs.
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