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Recent Examples of white dwarf
Eventually Arcturus will belch away most of its gas and will shrink down to a white dwarf star.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
As the black hole pulls the stellar remnant inward, the white dwarf loses matter from its outermost layer.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
The white dwarf acts as a cosmic thief, pulling material from its red giant companion in a process called accretion.
—Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Indeed, most white dwarfs are seen to have extremely pure atmospheres of just those two lighter elements.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
As the black hole pulls the stellar remnant inward, the white dwarf loses matter from its outermost layer.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
The white dwarf acts as a cosmic thief, pulling material from its red giant companion in a process called accretion.
—Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
Indeed, most white dwarfs are seen to have extremely pure atmospheres of just those two lighter elements.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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Gravitational waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time caused by the motion of massive objects like black holes or neutron stars.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Such interactions between black holes or neutron stars (compact remnants of exploded massive stars) can be studied through the deflection angle, the energy released through the near miss and the momentum of the objects’ recoil—all of which may be discerned in gravitational waves.—
Ramin Skibba,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
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With the quest for longitude over, the observatory explored other avenues of astronomy, such as tracking Earth's magnetic field, viewing planetary transits and characterizing binary star systems.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
22 June 2025
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Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
22 May 2025
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The campaign, which is slated to run locally, nationally and internationally, incorporates the red stars and colors of the Chicago flag, and features scenes of people making doughnuts, running by the lakefront and partying en masse at a live concert.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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The lunar disk will appear to close in on Antares as the night of June 9 progresses, with the red star eventually setting above the moon's upper left shoulder as the duo slip beneath the southwestern horizon in the predawn hours of June 10.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 June 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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About the size of Saturn, the new world is circling a red dwarf star about 111 light-years away.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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But Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, with just a fraction of the sun's brightness and size.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 May 2025
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The new brown dwarfs also exhibit signals from an unidentified hydrocarbon, a chemical compound composed solely of hydrogen and carbon atoms.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 June 2025
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However, in this case, there are two brown dwarfs involved here.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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The most violent of these deaths are associated with truly giant stars and are known as supernovas—explosions that sometimes outshine entire galaxies.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Planners juggle thousands of variables, yet one late part or an unexpected route change can unwind months of work.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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There are variables involved with recent Valparaiso graduate Caden Crowell’s next team.—
Michael Osipoff,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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