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English: The closest to the Sun solitary white dwarf 14 ly away in the constellation Pisces - Dense and compact stellar remnant has 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius - 3 billion years old as a white dwarf (4.1 billion years old including its main-sequence stage) -
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