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Recent Examples of white dwarf
Despite their diminutive size, white dwarfs are still extremely dense.
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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
The two white dwarfs are currently spiraling around each other in an orbit taking longer than 14 hours.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 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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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
The two white dwarfs are currently spiraling around each other in an orbit taking longer than 14 hours.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 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
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As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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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
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Using artificial neutral networks, his tool allows astronomers to distinguish true binary star systems from chance alignments in massive data sets like the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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The double stars of Albireo are considered a binary star system, just over 400 light-years away, with just one light-year equaling nearly 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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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 yellow ball, with its signature blue stripe and red star, can be spotted among other toys in movies like Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, Inside Out, and the Toy Story franchise.—
Kelly Connolly,
EW.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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The phosphine was identified in the cold atmosphere of a brown dwarf called Wolf 1130C, which exists in a triple system along with a low-mass red dwarf star and a white dwarf.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Another possibility is that the presence of phosphine is somehow related to the intrinsic chemical composition of the brown dwarf.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The first brown dwarfs were only found in the 1990s.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
12 June 2025
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The other type of star that goes supernova is a giant star with a mass at least eight times greater than the sun.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 Aug. 2025
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That will be the key variable in this entire season.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Above all, Warrick said, timing remains the biggest variable in determining when and how companies can begin the refunding process.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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