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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.
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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
The article also says the brown dwarf is about 47 light-years away, which is much farther than the 7 trillion miles claimed in the video.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
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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
The article also says the brown dwarf is about 47 light-years away, which is much farther than the 7 trillion miles claimed in the video.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brown dwarf
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The Blaze Star has become a white dwarf, which happens when stars have exhausted their nuclear fuels.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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The other is a white dwarf, the small and dense core of a dead star.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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The collisions of compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars emit strong gravitational waves.Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
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The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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This galactic speed demon appears to have a red dwarf star smaller and dimmer than our sun.Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024
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The smallest red dwarfs, with masses barely bigger than a tenth of the mass of the Sun, can burn for trillions of years.Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
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However, Shotton also highlighted a study by Charles Spence that attempts to isolate the effort variable.Roger Dooley, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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This leaves plenty of time for variables, for temperature fluctuations, and for off flavors to seep into the coffee from the fridge.Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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This region, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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Rubin's wide field of view will enable it to produce alerts for transient events like supernovas or asteroids within 120 seconds, generating 20 terabytes of data each night, ultimately creating the largest astronomical movie ever.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Related article Webb telescope captures ‘green monster’ inside a young supernova The violent outbursts of supernovas typically destroy white dwarfs, but the partial explosion, known as a rare Type lax supernova, left behind a zombie star instead.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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