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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.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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
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
Since it was discovered in 2015, K2-18b, which orbits a red dwarf star more than 120 light-years from Earth, has captivated scientists who have considered it among the best potential life-harboring ocean worlds.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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
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
Since it was discovered in 2015, K2-18b, which orbits a red dwarf star more than 120 light-years from Earth, has captivated scientists who have considered it among the best potential life-harboring ocean worlds.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red dwarf
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Astronomers traced a previous detection of a long-period transient, announced in March, to a white dwarf that’s closely orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
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Crucially, the white dwarf is not destroyed, and the 80-year-long process begins again.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Gravitational waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time caused by the motion of massive objects like black holes or neutron stars.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Such interactions between black holes or neutron stars (compact remnants of exploded massive stars) can be studied through the deflection angle, the energy released through the near miss and the momentum of the objects’ recoil—all of which may be discerned in gravitational waves.—
Ramin Skibba,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
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The campaign, which is slated to run locally, nationally and internationally, incorporates the red stars and colors of the Chicago flag, and features scenes of people making doughnuts, running by the lakefront and partying en masse at a live concert.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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The lunar disk will appear to close in on Antares as the night of June 9 progresses, with the red star eventually setting above the moon's upper left shoulder as the duo slip beneath the southwestern horizon in the predawn hours of June 10.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 June 2025
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With the quest for longitude over, the observatory explored other avenues of astronomy, such as tracking Earth's magnetic field, viewing planetary transits and characterizing binary star systems.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
22 June 2025
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Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
22 May 2025
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The new brown dwarfs also exhibit signals from an unidentified hydrocarbon, a chemical compound composed solely of hydrogen and carbon atoms.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 June 2025
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However, in this case, there are two brown dwarfs involved here.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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Planners juggle thousands of variables, yet one late part or an unexpected route change can unwind months of work.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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There are variables involved with recent Valparaiso graduate Caden Crowell’s next team.—
Michael Osipoff,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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After weeks, months and years of observations, astronomers will have a time-lapse record revealing anything that explodes, flashes or moves – such as supernovas, variable stars or asteroids.—
Samantha Thompson,
Space.com,
7 July 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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That's 83 Ursae Majoris, a red giant star roughly 80 times larger and about 1,300 times more luminous than the sun.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
9 June 2025
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This may become particularly relevant when the proximate red giant star known as Betelgeuse, located around 700 light-years away, goes supernova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 June 2025
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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