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This means one of the brown dwarfs eclipses the other, as seen from our vantage point on Earth.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Scientists think one possibility is that the auroras are driven by an orbiting planet or moon interacting with the brown dwarf’s intense magnetic field.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
The brown dwarf is unlikely to be habitable, as it was found to be about 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 200 degrees Celsius.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
On the matter of planet or brown dwarf, Stefánsson's team remain open-minded.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Scientists think one possibility is that the auroras are driven by an orbiting planet or moon interacting with the brown dwarf’s intense magnetic field.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
The brown dwarf is unlikely to be habitable, as it was found to be about 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 200 degrees Celsius.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
On the matter of planet or brown dwarf, Stefánsson's team remain open-minded.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brown dwarf
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This leaves behind a white dwarf as a gradually-cooling stellar ember.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The white dwarfs are currently orbiting around each other, with each orbit lasting over 14 hours.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 May 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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The binary star system discovered in the new study is the heaviest of its kind that's ever been confirmed, with a combined mass that's 1.56 times that of the sun.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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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Discovered in 1916 by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnard’s Star is a small and slow-burning red dwarf classified by astronomers as an M-type star.—
Tom Metcalfe,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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Multiple kinds of observations from a variety of instruments led groups to a rare phenomenon: a white dwarf tightly orbiting a red dwarf every 125 minutes.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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With so many options and variables, Feldman said the choice comes down to individual needs and preferences.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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The bonuses are also influenced by other variables, including in-game interviews with players and the TV ratings their games generate.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
11 May 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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Both were focused on better understanding the demise of massive stars, but in one, the study was aimed at the sites of past supernovas (like NGC 4900) to estimate the masses of the stars that exploded and learn more about how the powerful events interact with their surroundings.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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These elements are thought to form through a series of nuclear reactions known as the rapid neutron capture process, or r-process, which was long theorized to occur only under extreme conditions such as those in supernovas or neutron star mergers.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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