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His favorites are recurrent novas — binary systems in which a massive white dwarf siphons so much material from its partner that its surface becomes dense enough and hot enough to undergo nuclear fusion, resulting in a dramatic increase in brightness at least twice per century.
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Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2026
The system consists of a red giant and a white dwarf orbiting one another.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 27 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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Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2026
The system consists of a red giant and a white dwarf orbiting one another.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 27 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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The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 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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Head outside tonight and drink in the sight of the Pleiades open star cluster glistening close to the red star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus, before the mesmerizing naked-eye jewel slips out of view with the changing of the seasons.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
24 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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And that’s the key variable driving his OPOY odds.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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The most dangerous variable, instructors often say, is not the snowpack.—
Jane Sadowsky,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Located around 40 light-years from Earth, TRAPPIST-1 d, e, f, and g all orbit their red dwarf star at distances that hypothetically could support liquid water.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 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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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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Then, about four to five billion years later, our Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel in its core, evolving into a red giant.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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