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While some brown dwarfs may form stable planetary systems in their own right, astronomers have observed rogue brown dwarfs – objects that are free floating in space.
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Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
Matthews says that both the brown dwarfs likely formed from the same material, and at the same time, as Eps Ind Ab and its parent star.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty faint.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
Zoom out: Their new proposal would instead classify planets based on their mass, considering a planet to be any celestial body that:
orbits one or more stars, brown dwarfs or stellar remnants and,
is more massive than 10²³ kilograms (kg) and,
is less massive than 13 Jupiter masses (2.5 X 10²⁸ kg).
—Jacob Knutson, Axios, 11 July 2024
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Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
Matthews says that both the brown dwarfs likely formed from the same material, and at the same time, as Eps Ind Ab and its parent star.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty faint.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
Zoom out: Their new proposal would instead classify planets based on their mass, considering a planet to be any celestial body that:
orbits one or more stars, brown dwarfs or stellar remnants and,
is more massive than 10²³ kilograms (kg) and,
is less massive than 13 Jupiter masses (2.5 X 10²⁸ kg).
—Jacob Knutson, Axios, 11 July 2024
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In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the stellar corpse of the bygone star known as a white dwarf, which is seen as the tiny white dot within the nebula, is indeed located at its center.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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The white dwarf could be shedding matter and triggering the pulses observed by the researchers.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Jan. 2025
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One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun Astronomers hypothesize that the FRBs could be originating from two supernova remnants, called neutron stars, that are merging or collapsing onto themselves, Shah said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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However, the existence of a white dwarf is not sufficient for a Type la supernova; the white draft must also be part of a binary star system, in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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New York has no issue in that regard — second in offensive rating, third in shooting percentage and a binary star averaging more than 50 points per game.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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See the location of the Hollywood Sign marked by the red star in the image below.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
9 Jan. 2025
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These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.—
Lisa Kaltenegger,
WIRED,
5 Dec. 2024
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The potential problem here is that red dwarfs spend a long time dimming during their early phases, which means planets in their habitable zone may have originally been too close to the star and, therefore, too hot.—
Conor Feehly,
Discover Magazine,
9 Oct. 2024
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That is the result of the unusual characteristics of their tiny and cool host red dwarf star, which can mimic atmospheric signals that are already weak and hard to detect.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2024
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Holidays Holidays are another variable to consider.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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Stevenson explained the 20th century French literary travel philosophy of psychogeography posited that travelling on the same path twice never leads to the same experience because other variables are ever changing.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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As one of the largest, most luminous stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, the variable star VY Canis Majoris is a likely candidates for the next naked-eye core-collapse supernova, said Guinan.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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The effect is to make type-Ia supernovas look further away than expected and so appear to be moving faster.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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