Before you is the first book in Russian, almost entirely devoted to the cooling relics of stars, known as white dwarfs. But the fate of turning into such inhabitants of outer space awaits almost all stars, except for the most massive. The history of the discovery of white dwarfs and their study spans decades, and the author not only describes in detail their physical nature and paradoxical properties in many respects, but also talks about scientists who have devoted their lives to these objects of the Great Cosmos. In addition to information about supernovae and cosmological problems associated with white dwarfs, the reader will get acquainted with the history of radio astronomy, learn about the discovery of pulsars and quasars, about the first detection, origin and properties of microwave background radiation and its role in the study of the Universe.
