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The star, named StKM 1-1262, is a red dwarf star about 130 light-years from Earth.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
That’s in part, because the odds appear to be long for oxygenic photosynthesis arising on a planet circling a puny red dwarf.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
For a red dwarf like TRAPPIST-1, this region is much smaller than our own solar system.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 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, Freep.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
That’s in part, because the odds appear to be long for oxygenic photosynthesis arising on a planet circling a puny red dwarf.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
For a red dwarf like TRAPPIST-1, this region is much smaller than our own solar system.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 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, Freep.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red dwarf
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The sun will end its life as a white dwarf in around 6 billion years, fading alone in a cosmic graveyard that was once our solar system.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 May 2026
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In the center is a white dwarf, the dense, compact core of a dying star.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light rays, typically marking the last gasp of a dying star or the cataclysmic clap of two neutron stars.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 May 2026
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But with patience and a spirit of exploration, each step reveals a surprise: tiny red stars, minute purple pinpoints, a wash of pink-white across a creek.—
Alissa Greenberg,
Mercury News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Discovered in 1999, this small red star has no fewer than seven rocky planets in its habitable zone.—
Joanna Thompson,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, researchers imaged the binary star system AFGL 4106, which sits at the heart of a dusty orange cocoon.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis is a binary star system poised for a rare thermonuclear display.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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Once orbiting each other, the brown dwarfs would have gradually spiraled closer and closer together, with the gravitational influence of one brown dwarf causing its counterpart to puff out and become less dense.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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What’s left is likely to be a large gas giant, possibly somewhere between Jupiter and a brown dwarf star in mass.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 Jan. 2026
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Brighton, Manchester City, Arsenal and Everton all fall into the latter category, and FPL managers should be paying close attention to this variable heading into the final stretch.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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The main booking variable is whether WWE creative uses Backlash to extend Fatu's chase or pull a swerve.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.—
Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 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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Its anchor, Arcturus, is 37 light-years distant and a red giant star — its color leading Chinese astronomers to see it as a horn of a giant dragon.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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Because our Sun will eventually become a red giant, the findings offer insight into its distant future.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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