Examples of white dwarf in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Last year’s discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet circling a white dwarf made scientists reconsider the possibility of finding life in unlikely places. — Katrina Miller, Wired, 13 July 2021 The way this white dwarf, named ZTF J1901+1458, was born also is unusual. — NBC News, 1 July 2021 Astronomers have discovered the smallest white dwarf star ever documented around 130 lightyears from Earth, reports Leah Crane for New Scientist. — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2021 The white dwarf is actually shrinking very gradually, becoming ever more dense. — NBC News, 1 July 2021 Along another wall rested an image of a grainy, purple wheel-like image, which Lawson told me is a white dwarf star called Sirius B. It’s the companion to Sirius A, the brightest star in the night sky, and as such, blotted out by the brightness. — New York Times, 5 May 2021 With neutron star or white dwarf cores, the larger star’s fate is sealed: no supernova. — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021 The show’s soul, however, is the central relationship between Legoshi, a male gray wolf, and Haru, a female white dwarf rabbit. — Eric Vilas-boas, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2021 The mass of Stein 2051 B, a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a subject of some controversy for over a century. — Calla Cofield, Scientific American, 9 June 2017

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