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The sun blows off its outer layers and the core is exposed to space, transforming into what astronomers call a white dwarf.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 July 2025
Eventually, gravity will pull them back together again, and the celestial dance of the white dwarf collecting energy from its companion star will start over.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
One, a white dwarf star — the dense core of a dead sun-like star — sucks matter onto its surface from the other star until a thermonuclear explosion occurs.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Since 1980, observatories studying this nebula have detected high-energy X-rays coming from the white dwarf at its core.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 3 July 2025
Eventually, gravity will pull them back together again, and the celestial dance of the white dwarf collecting energy from its companion star will start over.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
One, a white dwarf star — the dense core of a dead sun-like star — sucks matter onto its surface from the other star until a thermonuclear explosion occurs.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Since 1980, observatories studying this nebula have detected high-energy X-rays coming from the white dwarf at its core.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2025
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In this region, stellar populations are sparse, and stars with the necessary mass needed to go supernova and to birth a neutron star at the heart of a pulsar should be vanishingly rare.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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But an unseen companion like a neutron star could be siphoning material away from the larger star — and that may have been enough to release a burst of radio waves, Blanchard said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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This system, designated UPM J1040−3551 AabBab and located around 82 light-years from Earth, is an extremely rare hierarchical quadruple star system containing a pair of cold brown dwarfs that orbit a pair of young red dwarf stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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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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In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
2 June 2025
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Armed with the knowledge that disks have these slight warps, theorists have a new variable to input into their simulations of how planets are assembled, to gain new insights into how our Earth and the other planets of the solar system came to be.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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That's what good engineering provides, repeatable processes that work regardless of the specific variables.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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