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Now, thanks to Webb, the rings—which are likely composed of small dust grains, heated by ultraviolet light from a white dwarf star—can be seen clearly.
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2025
Eventually Arcturus will belch away most of its gas and will shrink down to a white dwarf star.
—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
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 Apr. 2025
Eventually Arcturus will belch away most of its gas and will shrink down to a white dwarf star.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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Because of their curious ability to transmute into photons in the presence of strong magnetic fields, any place that features strong fields—think neutron stars or even the solar corona—could produce extra radiation due to axions.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 June 2025
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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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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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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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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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The planet is huge; the star is tiny, a red dwarf only 20 percent the mass of our own sun.—
Avery Hurt,
Discover Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Such large worlds are, however, rarely found around the smallest stars, red dwarfs.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 June 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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Yet many estate plans are written as if these variables will remain constant forever.—
Patti Brennan,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Another variable complicating the federal workers’ case is the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the authority of federal judges to grant universal injunctions.—
Gabriella Fine,
Baltimore Sun,
8 July 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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