How to Use white dwarf in a Sentence

white dwarf

noun

• In this case, the brown dwarf is 10 times less massive than the dense white dwarf.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
• Second, there is a bright light bulb [the white dwarf] next to the firefly.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2017
• The star system is made up of two stars; a normal star and a white dwarf.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Mar. 2022
• Within 24 hours, Shen’s team found three white dwarfs that might fit the bill.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 8 May 2018
• This white dwarf is one of the oldest observed by TESS.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Sep. 2020
• Three years ago, astronomers put a white dwarf on a scale and watched the needle move.
  — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2018
• The team also found the planet is 40 times more massive than Jupiter and the white dwarf is about 60% of the Sun's mass.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2021
• Its companion star is about four times the mass of its white dwarf.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2020
• That was first confirmed with the measurement of a redshift in the starlight of a white dwarf star in 1954.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2020
• Hydrogen from the red giant is drawn to the surface of the white dwarf because of the pull.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• That's because a white dwarf star has about the same mass as Earth's sun, Hounsell said.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
• That's nearly twice the average mass of a white dwarf star.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Mar. 2020
• After the sun has become a white dwarf, most of the inner planets will be gone.
  — Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
• For the first time, Webb was able to unshroud the white dwarf — which appears as the red dot in the picture above — from the dust that surrounds it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• This duo is in a 327-day orbit with the other white dwarf, which lies much farther away.
  — Mike Wall, NBC News, 5 July 2018
• Before becoming a white dwarf, the star was much like our sun.
  — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
• Exploding white dwarf stars may well be the last hurrah of the cosmos.
  — Dan Falk, National Geographic, 17 Aug. 2020
• Two stars, a red giant star and a white dwarf, orbit each other.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• For small stars like our sun, that stellar remnant is a white dwarf; for the largest stars, that remnant is a black hole.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2018
• Over time, the white dwarf siphons matter from its companion.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 16 June 2022
• Black holes, white dwarfs, asteroids, planets, moons, just to name a few.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2019
• As the two orbit each other, the intense gravity of the white dwarf pulls gas off the red giant star.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
• The star was found traveling faster than 99% of nearby white dwarfs that appear to have the same cooling age.
  — WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
• For this reason the white dwarf research was granted 130 orbits of time with the Hubble.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
• The outer shells of the star expand out into space as the star transitions into a white dwarf.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• Seen from about 2,000 light-years away, the Ring Nebula and its tiny central white dwarf are the remnants of a sunlike star.
  — Brian T. Jacobs, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021
• If one of those stars evolves into a small but massive white dwarf, the hefty dwarf can pull gas from its companion.
  — National Geographic, 27 Apr. 2016
• This data allowed the team behind the finding to model the white dwarf’s cooling over time.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 14 June 2023
• In about 5 billion years, our sun is expected to become a white dwarf.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
• Would a civilization be able to survive around a white dwarf?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024