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The system consists of a red giant and a white dwarf orbiting one another.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Its intense radiation lights up the surrounding gas, creating a rainbow of features: hot ionized gas closest to the white dwarf, cooler molecular hydrogen farther out, and protective pockets where more complex molecules can begin to form within dust clouds.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 20 Jan. 2026
To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025
The habitable zone around a white dwarf would be 10 to 100 times closer to the white dwarf than our own habitable zone is to our Sun, since white dwarfs are so much fainter.
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Its intense radiation lights up the surrounding gas, creating a rainbow of features: hot ionized gas closest to the white dwarf, cooler molecular hydrogen farther out, and protective pockets where more complex molecules can begin to form within dust clouds.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 20 Jan. 2026
To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025
The habitable zone around a white dwarf would be 10 to 100 times closer to the white dwarf than our own habitable zone is to our Sun, since white dwarfs are so much fainter.
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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Gamma-ray bursts happen without warning, when massive stars die and form black holes or during mergers of neutron stars and black holes.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
23 Mar. 2026
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, researchers imaged the binary star system AFGL 4106, which sits at the heart of a dusty orange cocoon.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis is a binary star system poised for a rare thermonuclear display.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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Discovered in 1999, this small red star has no fewer than seven rocky planets in its habitable zone.—
Joanna Thompson,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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According to this idea, although these objects may look like supersize red stars, their shine is powered not by standard stellar thermonuclear fusion but rather by the relentless funneling of burning-hot plasma into the insatiable maw of a snowballing black hole.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.—
Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 2026
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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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Light Light exposure is the biggest variable for getting seeds to sprout.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
20 Apr. 2026
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This is the first playoff clash between the Nuggets and Timberwolves since the latter swapped out a pretty important variable in its frontcourt — Karl-Anthony Towns for Julius Randle (and DiVincenzo).—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
17 Apr. 2026
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The Jupiter-esque planet known as TOI-5205 b is the first exoplanet of its kind with an atmosphere containing far fewer heavy elements than similarly sized objects, as well as its own red dwarf star.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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The research team, led by Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, detected a transit signal in the light curve of the star TOI-1080, an inactive M4V-type red dwarf.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2026
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Once orbiting each other, the brown dwarfs would have gradually spiraled closer and closer together, with the gravitational influence of one brown dwarf causing its counterpart to puff out and become less dense.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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What’s left is likely to be a large gas giant, possibly somewhere between Jupiter and a brown dwarf star in mass.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 Jan. 2026
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Together, the three bodies form a kind of cosmic triangle, with the baleful light of the red giant star Betelgeuse at its heart.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Because our Sun will eventually become a red giant, the findings offer insight into its distant future.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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