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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 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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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
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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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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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This proximity to a red dwarf is problematic, however, as these pipsqueak stars can punch well above their weight by regularly unleashing violent stellar outbursts.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
8 Sep. 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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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
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That definitely plays a little bit of a variable into it.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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