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Recent Examples of white dwarf
But can life even exist on a planet orbiting a white dwarf?
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Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
Despite their diminutive size, white dwarfs are still extremely dense.
—Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
So, astronomers have been considering other ways of blowing up a white dwarf.
—ArsTechnica, 2 July 2025
Many of these white dwarfs are old but still show this signature of debris in their spectra.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025
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Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
Despite their diminutive size, white dwarfs are still extremely dense.
—Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
So, astronomers have been considering other ways of blowing up a white dwarf.
—ArsTechnica, 2 July 2025
Many of these white dwarfs are old but still show this signature of debris in their spectra.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
Noun
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What is a neutron star, or pulsar?—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 Dec. 2025
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Pulsar 2849 intrigued me with its neutron star premise.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
21 Dec. 2025
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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
Noun
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First, locate the red star Betelgeuse using a smartphone astronomy app.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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The look of his No. 88 car has been overhauled, featuring the red cross, red stars, and silver ferns on a black backdrop.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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Players getting paid can also affect locker room chemistry and become another variable to be managed.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the number will stay low but variable.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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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 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.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
9 Dec. 2025
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The background star involved in the event was identified as a red giant, helping to refine the measurements.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Jan. 2026
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This research and the observations of dust formation and outflows from a red giant could help better understand how AGB stars lose mass, one of the longest-standing unresolved problems in stellar astrophysics.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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