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Recent Examples of red dwarf
Barnard’s star is a red dwarf star, a low-mass, cool star that comprises about 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The spectra also showed the red dwarf’s glow was mixed with blue light.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
The potential problem here is that red dwarfs spend a long time dimming during their early phases, which means planets in their habitable zone may have originally been too close to the star and, therefore, too hot.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The spectra also showed the red dwarf’s glow was mixed with blue light.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
The potential problem here is that red dwarfs spend a long time dimming during their early phases, which means planets in their habitable zone may have originally been too close to the star and, therefore, too hot.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red dwarf
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What's left behind is the raw stellar core — a white dwarf.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Normally, neutrons are bound within atomic nuclei or in the matter making up extraordinarily powerful stars called neutron stars.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 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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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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After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Subtle irregularities in how the brown dwarfs moved hinted that something unseen was tugging on them—something in an unusual orbit.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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This means one of the brown dwarfs eclipses the other, as seen from our vantage point on Earth.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.—
Amit Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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There are simply too many variables to consider, including the genetic influence of does on their male offspring and the role that maturity plays in antler growth.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 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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As the two orbit each other, the intense gravity of the white dwarf pulls gas off the red giant star.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
13 Apr. 2025
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One is a red giant—a big, luminous star in the process of dying—that’s over 400 times larger than the sun.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes,
17 Oct. 2024
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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