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Matthews says that both the brown dwarfs likely formed from the same material, and at the same time, as Eps Ind Ab and its parent star.
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty faint.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
Zoom out: Their new proposal would instead classify planets based on their mass, considering a planet to be any celestial body that:
orbits one or more stars, brown dwarfs or stellar remnants and,
is more massive than 10²³ kilograms (kg) and,
is less massive than 13 Jupiter masses (2.5 X 10²⁸ kg).
—Jacob Knutson, Axios, 11 July 2024
The article also says the brown dwarf is about 47 light-years away, which is much farther than the 7 trillion miles claimed in the video.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty faint.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
Zoom out: Their new proposal would instead classify planets based on their mass, considering a planet to be any celestial body that:
orbits one or more stars, brown dwarfs or stellar remnants and,
is more massive than 10²³ kilograms (kg) and,
is less massive than 13 Jupiter masses (2.5 X 10²⁸ kg).
—Jacob Knutson, Axios, 11 July 2024
The article also says the brown dwarf is about 47 light-years away, which is much farther than the 7 trillion miles claimed in the video.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
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After the nova, the white dwarf returns to its normal size, and starts the process all over again.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Scientists know that stellar corpses are densely packed with neutrons — one teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh as much as Mount Everest.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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The group calculated that approximately one in three gravitational waves of the right sort (neutron star collisions work best since their mergers last longer than black hole mergers) would make the bar ring with one quantum unit of energy.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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This galactic speed demon appears to have a red dwarf star smaller and dimmer than our sun.Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024
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The smallest red dwarfs, with masses barely bigger than a tenth of the mass of the Sun, can burn for trillions of years.Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
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With many variables at play, White Castle hasn’t measured whether Flippy has improved employee retention, Richardson said.Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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The Moody’s model also factors in other variables, including voter turnout for the non-incumbent party, the incumbent party candidate's approval rating, and the vote share garnered by third parties.Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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Using these variable stars, scientists can measure the distances to galaxies up to about 100 million light-years from us.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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Related article Webb telescope captures ‘green monster’ inside a young supernova The violent outbursts of supernovas typically destroy white dwarfs, but the partial explosion, known as a rare Type lax supernova, left behind a zombie star instead.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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Pop supernova Chappell Roan may have another project in the works following her successful debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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