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Too Hot For Life Barnard’s star is a red dwarf star, a low-mass, cool star that comprises about 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Orbiting a red dwarf star, which typically has a longer lifespan than larger stars like our Sun, Kepler-186f might benefit from stable conditions for billions of years, giving life more time to potentially develop.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024
Attention has instead turned to small, red dwarf stars, or M-dwarfs, which are between 10% and 60% of the size of the Sun and less than 7% as bright.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
That was never going to be easy, because red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 tend to be tempestuous, erupting and flaring in ways that can blast away atmospheres and also confound the weak atmospheric signal JWST is trying to detect.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Orbiting a red dwarf star, which typically has a longer lifespan than larger stars like our Sun, Kepler-186f might benefit from stable conditions for billions of years, giving life more time to potentially develop.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024
Attention has instead turned to small, red dwarf stars, or M-dwarfs, which are between 10% and 60% of the size of the Sun and less than 7% as bright.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
That was never going to be easy, because red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 tend to be tempestuous, erupting and flaring in ways that can blast away atmospheres and also confound the weak atmospheric signal JWST is trying to detect.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
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Their proximity allows material to flow from the subgiant to the white dwarf.Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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That appears to be what happened some 4000 light-years away, allowing a planet similar in mass and orbital position to slide twice as far from its star, surviving the star’s expansion into a red giant and subsequent contraction into a white dwarf.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Pulsars are rapidly spinning cosmic remnants called neutron stars that form when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own gravity.Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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This conclusion was reached thanks to new data about the accelerations of nearby pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit beams of radiation that sweep out through space light the beacon of a lighthouse.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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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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Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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In mid-December 2024, scientists discovered a pair of binary stars designated D9 orbiting each other close to Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Scientists have never been able to detect the binary star system within the S-cluster -- until now.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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As expected with these diminutive masses, brown dwarfs are rarely found in binaries.Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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But the other system isn’t a perfect mirror of our Solar System—a brown dwarf also orbiting the star may have played a part in the Earth-like planet’s survival, experts tell The New York Times.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Even after racking up more than two points per game in the first half of the season, Opta — by factoring in variables including the quality of recent performances, upcoming fixtures, historical results and their own power rankings — is predicting the Welsh club will finish on 82.23 points.Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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Your priorities change, and variables outside of your control change as well.David Faris, Newsweek, 28 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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In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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However, by then, the sun will have exhausted its hydrogen fuel and be expanding into a red giant star, either consuming Earth or boiling away its oceans.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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