red dwarf

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Recent Examples of red dwarf TRAPPIST-1e is the fourth planet in orbit around a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a planet while observing Alpha Centauri, a system of three stars orbiting each other — binary stars Alpha Centauri A and B, along with the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025 And the star and its two companions, the slightly smaller Alpha Centauri B and the tiny red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, comprise the nearest stellar system to our own—just about four and a half light-years away. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025 Illustration: Getty Images A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. Jorge Garay, Wired News, 28 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for red dwarf
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Noun
  • Instead, these stars leave behind a white dwarf.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • What’s left behind is a massive white dwarf with a hydrogen-helium layer that’s 10 billion times thinner than usual, allowing detectable carbon to reach the surface.
    Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In this kind of system, scientists theorize that the black hole tears the neutron star apart before swallowing it, which releases electromagnetic waves.
    Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Aldebaran, the red star that represents the 'right eye' of the bull, appears to be part of the cluster, but is actually located a mere 65 light-years from us.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Blue and red stars shine brightly, while nearby blue spiral galaxies and distant red galaxy groups can also be seen.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Antares is, in reality, a binary star system, made up of a red supergiant star with a white main sequence companion, though the light of the red giant dominates the naked-eye view from Earth.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Detecting and analyzing these oddities can help Bédard, Sahu, and other researchers gain a more comprehensive understanding of the ultimate fate of many binary star systems.
    Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And bumps in the early light curve of a supernova could indicate the presence of a close companion – a nearby star, brown dwarf or giant planet – that has become caught up in the conflagration.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The first brown dwarfs were only found in the 1990s.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Computations weren't merely limited to simple figures, though; the Cat also allowed users to store the result of a computation to a variable and reference that variable in other computations.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That definitely plays a little bit of a variable into it.
    Joe Smith, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Antares is, in reality, a binary star system, made up of a red supergiant star with a white main sequence companion, though the light of the red giant dominates the naked-eye view from Earth.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Webb’s data revealed an object, named NIR-1, which could be a massive star or a red giant — a sun-like star at the end of its life that has brightened significantly.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025

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