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brown dwarf

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Recent Examples of brown dwarf Instead Hoy and his colleagues used the radial velocity method to look for wobbles in the brown dwarf. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 July 2026 Orbiting this star is a brown dwarf, which is a type of gas giant that is larger than a planet, yet smaller than a star. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 July 2026 The brown dwarf creates gravitational instability at distances equivalent to the distance between Mars and the sun, but this didn't prevent planets from forming in the system. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 June 2026 What’s left is likely to be a large gas giant, possibly somewhere between Jupiter and a brown dwarf star in mass. — ArsTechnica, 2 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for brown dwarf

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Meanwhile, the star's inert core contracted and became a white dwarf.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The white dwarf emits radiation and produces a giant gas bubble—the lion’s face—that destroys dust in its path.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of white dwarf

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These occur when a dense stellar remnant called a neutron star drags material from a companion stellar body.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Hubble’s images reveal an intricate web of gas and dust spreading outward from the explosion’s center, where a rapidly spinning neutron star remains.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of neutron star

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The twinkling point of light to the moon's upper left is the binary star system Alpha Virginis, also known as Spica, which shines as the brightest point in the constellation Virgo.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026
The study has major implications for studying binary star systems as well.

— Damien Pine, Scientific American, 21 July 2026

Definition of binary star

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The Hollywood Historic Trust shared a photo of restoration progress on its social media, showing a blank red star set in an otherwise empty square.

— Noe Padilla, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
The Soviet Union was an archetypal fragile superpower, its red star burning bright before its dramatic final implosion.

— Ben Bland, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of red star

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While no exoplanet has been definitively proven to have a global ocean, there are candidates like TOI-1452 b — a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star — that could contain a much larger proportion of water than Earth.

— Alix Freckelton, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Its host star is a dim bulb of a red dwarf about 49 light-years from our sun.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of red dwarf

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Beyond creating much more capable sensors, the researchers have turned the fiber's geometry and internal architecture into another engineering variable.

— Pawel Maniewski, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
Take the time to compare each offer side by side, and look for the most competitive interest rates and whether the rate is fixed or variable.

— Amy DeYoung, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of variable

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This variable star is also located 250 light-years from Earth, but is sadly lost from view in the glare of the sun during the summer months.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 June 2026
Mroz counters, however, that none of those cases are actual microlensing events and instead the mere fluctuations of ordinary variable stars.

— Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026

Definition of variable star

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Researchers have now collected experimental evidence that determines how much titanium-44 is created in a supernova, finding that these cosmic explosions produce 35% more of this element than expected.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Over the course of its five-year mission, the Roman telescope will capture images of the Milky Way, survey the entire sky and observe supernova explosions that occurred as far as 8 billion years ago.

— Josh Feldman, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026

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