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Recent Examples of brown dwarf
On the matter of planet or brown dwarf, Stefánsson's team remain open-minded.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
This graphic compares a Sun-like star with a red dwarf, a typical brown dwarf, an ultra-cool brown dwarf, and a planet like Jupiter.
—Big Think, 13 Jan. 2025
The formation of the brown dwarf pair is still unknown.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2024
Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
This graphic compares a Sun-like star with a red dwarf, a typical brown dwarf, an ultra-cool brown dwarf, and a planet like Jupiter.
—Big Think, 13 Jan. 2025
The formation of the brown dwarf pair is still unknown.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2024
Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brown dwarf
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What's left behind is the raw stellar core — a white dwarf.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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But the intense confines of the neutron star's interior keep the neutrons stable and free-flowing.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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For true stellar heavyweights—stars with more than about eight times the sun’s mass—the end comes as a catastrophic supernova explosion that leaves behind a neutron star or black hole.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2025
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Astronomers have theorized that supernovas such as these are caused by two white dwarfs orbiting each other in a binary star system, when one of them consumes the other.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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According to Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a supergiant red star that’s located in the constellation named Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
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The tricolor has horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, with three red stars down the center stripe, which in the 1930s represented the three main states of Aleppo, Damascus, and Deir Ezzor.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 2025
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Based on the fact that the typical star in the Milky Way is considerably smaller than the Sun, the researchers assume a red dwarf, which produces a planet with a mass about 1.3 times that of Earth.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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Here's why the debate continues — Earth-size planet discovered around cool red dwarf star shares its name with a biscuit The team will now continue to use KMTNet and gravitational lensing to hunt for lensing planetary systems in an attempt to discover more super-Earths in wide orbits.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Anyone who begins developing a digital construction platform without considering these variables is already off to an auspicious start.—
Michael Pink,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The perpetual variable in this is Ranger Suárez, who threw 78 pitches in 4 2/3 innings Sunday at Triple A.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 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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And only when some stars had exhausted their fusion fuel did their collapse and explosion in supernovas create heavier elements such as heavy metals.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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