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Recent Examples of white dwarf
In the center lies the remnant of that old star – a white dwarf.
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Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
The red giant and white dwarf have an explosive relationship.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
The red giant and white dwarf have an explosive relationship.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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But the intense confines of the neutron star's interior keep the neutrons stable and free-flowing.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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For true stellar heavyweights—stars with more than about eight times the sun’s mass—the end comes as a catastrophic supernova explosion that leaves behind a neutron star or black hole.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
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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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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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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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
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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
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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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Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the finale at the end of a giant star’s life.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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Anyone who begins developing a digital construction platform without considering these variables is already off to an auspicious start.—
Michael Pink,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The perpetual variable in this is Ranger Suárez, who threw 78 pitches in 4 2/3 innings Sunday at Triple A.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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