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Recent Examples of red dwarf
However, red dwarf stars have starspots and eruptions that interfere with measurements.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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
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
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.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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
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
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.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red dwarf
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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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Reports of earthquake felt away from source (red star) on February 14, 2025.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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During his memorial, his coffin was secured on the van and draped in the Syrian flag—not the one that hung from Assad’s palace but an earlier version, with three red stars, that had been revived as an emblem of the revolution.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Roman will be looking at the motion of the universe in the visible range too, thanks to what are known as type 1a supernovas—exploding stars that are part of a binary star system.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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In contrast, stars, including brown dwarfs, form on their own within giant collapsing clouds of gas.—
ByAdam Mann,
science.org,
6 Nov. 2024
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The cool brown dwarf Gliese 229 B is a close binary European Southern Observatory.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
16 Oct. 2024
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Additional Bearish Factors Multiple analysts took a broader approach, citing a range of variables as being behind bitcoin’s recent depreciation.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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But this year saw a freak variable that prompted DraftKings to adjust the lines.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 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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Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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One is directly, by observing 'standard candles' — that is, objects with predictable luminosities such as Cepheid variables, type Ia supernova explosions, and red giant stars — in galaxies and determining how far away they are based on the apparent brightness of these standard candles.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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