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The second scenario suggests a star or a smaller stellar body like a brown dwarf or even a planet could have encountered the immense gravitational influence of a black hole or a neutron star, resulting in a smaller, less powerful TDE-type event called a micro-tidal disruption event.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
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Procyon's white dwarf companion was not found until 1896 at the Lick Observatory in California.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The culprit was a magnetar, a super-magnetized neutron star located about 50,000 light-years away.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2026
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But when a binary star about to go supernova threatens the planet Adjumir, Maw’s beloved Gebre entrusts him with an artifact and the order to leave him behind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Lohan put her right hand in the shot, showing off a bubble bath pink natural nail polish as well as a small red star tattoo.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Big, hot, blue stars live shorter lives, while tiny, cool, red stars live for much longer.—
Stephen DiKerby,
The Conversation,
24 Nov. 2025
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The star, named StKM 1-1262, is a red dwarf star about 130 light-years from Earth.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Nov. 2025
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With help from the ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory, the team traced the energy waves to a red dwarf located around 130 light-years away from Earth known as StKM 1-1262.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 Nov. 2025
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The change in variable, that of international student enrollment, means the university has gone from a student body of over 9,000 students to now slightly above 6,000 students over the past two years.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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But which variable is most impactful, the wind speed or air temperature?—
Jeff Wagner,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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In another imaging campaign, API, assisted by AMIGO, was able to produce detailed images of a black hole jet, the volcanic surface of Jupiter's moon Io, and stellar winds emanating from a distant variable star.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 June 2025
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When this final collapse happens, shockwaves ripple out to the star's outer layers, which are blown away in a supernova explosion, taking with them the vast majority of the star's mass.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny has worked with soccer supernova Lionel Messi.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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