White dwarfs. The future of the universe

Here is the first book in Russian, almost entirely dedicated to the cooling relics of stars, known by the name of white dwarfs. But fate will turn into such inhabitants of space space will find almost all stars except the most massive. The history of the discovery of white dwarfs and their study has decades, and the author not only describes their physical nature and in many ways paradoxical properties, but also talks about scientists who have devoted the lives to these objects of large space. In addition to information about supernovae and cosmological problems associated with white dwarfs, the reader will get acquainted with the history of radio -astronomy, learns about the discovery of pulsars and quasars, the first detection, origin and properties of microwave relic radiation and its role in the study of the Universe