Why doesn't the Pauli Exclusion principle apply to our Sun?

I understand how the Pauli Exclusion principle prevents the collapse of a white dwarf, but why isn't there a resistive pressure before the star collapses into the size of a while dwarf? There are just as many electrons before and after the star collapses into a white dwarf, so wouldn't we need to fill just as many quantum states? I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that the elections are more spread out in the star before it collapses. Does the Pauli Exclusion principle only apply to elections occupying the same space? Is there some arbitrary diameter where electrons begin to function as a single system and the Pauli Exclusion principle begins to apply?

Submitted January 29, 2016 at 01:27AM by ThinkMaize http://ift.tt/1WQV1xD