This moon-sized white dwarf is the smallest ever found

The dead star is also spinning extremely fast and has a powerful magnetic field

illustration of a newfound white dwarf star

With a radius of about 2,100 kilometers, a newfound white dwarf (left in this illustration) is just slightly bigger than the moon (right).

Giuseppe Parisi

Only a smidge bigger than the moon, a newfound white dwarf is the smallest of its kind known.