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Which group of stars has a higher luminosity white dwarfs or giants?

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Answer:

giants has a higher luminosity

Step-by-step explanation:

A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main-sequence (or dwarf) star of the same surface temperature.Giant stars have radii up to a few hundred times the Sun and luminosity between 10 and a few thousand times that of the Sun.

While a white dwarf is a small, very dense, hot star that is made mostly of carbon. These faint stars(less luminous) are what remains after a red giant star loses its outer layers. Their nuclear cores are depleted. They are about the size of the Earth (but tremendously heavier)

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