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But can life even exist on a planet orbiting a white dwarf?
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Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
Despite their diminutive size, white dwarfs are still extremely dense.
—Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
So, astronomers have been considering other ways of blowing up a white dwarf.
—ArsTechnica, 2 July 2025
Many of these white dwarfs are old but still show this signature of debris in their spectra.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025
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Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
Despite their diminutive size, white dwarfs are still extremely dense.
—Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
So, astronomers have been considering other ways of blowing up a white dwarf.
—ArsTechnica, 2 July 2025
Many of these white dwarfs are old but still show this signature of debris in their spectra.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 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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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Using artificial neutral networks, his tool allows astronomers to distinguish true binary star systems from chance alignments in massive data sets like the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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First, locate the red star Betelgeuse using a smartphone astronomy app.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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The look of his No. 88 car has been overhauled, featuring the red cross, red stars, and silver ferns on a black backdrop.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Oct. 2025
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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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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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North wind moving 5-8 mph will become light and variable after midnight.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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For as much planning that goes into a stadium flip of this magnitude, after all — the weather is the variable that isn’t in Tepper Sports’ hands.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Oct. 2025
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The phosphine was identified in the cold atmosphere of a brown dwarf called Wolf 1130C, which exists in a triple system along with a low-mass red dwarf star and a white dwarf.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 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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Another possibility is that the presence of phosphine is somehow related to the intrinsic chemical composition of the brown dwarf.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 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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Eventually, the outer layers of such a red giant begin to shed off until the raw core of the star is revealed.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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This star is a red giant known as SDSS J0715-7334, and has just one-20,000th the abundance of heavy elements that our Sun possesses.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
10 Oct. 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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