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Attention has instead turned to small, red dwarf stars, or M-dwarfs, which are between 10% and 60% of the size of the Sun and less than 7% as bright.
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
That was never going to be easy, because red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 tend to be tempestuous, erupting and flaring in ways that can blast away atmospheres and also confound the weak atmospheric signal JWST is trying to detect.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
For example, the habitable zone is closer to a smaller, cooler star (like a red dwarf) and farther from a larger, hotter star.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
Gliese 12 b orbits a cool, red dwarf star and takes 12.8 days to complete an orbit.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
That was never going to be easy, because red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 tend to be tempestuous, erupting and flaring in ways that can blast away atmospheres and also confound the weak atmospheric signal JWST is trying to detect.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
For example, the habitable zone is closer to a smaller, cooler star (like a red dwarf) and farther from a larger, hotter star.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
Gliese 12 b orbits a cool, red dwarf star and takes 12.8 days to complete an orbit.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red dwarf
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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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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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The flag of North Korea features a red star within a white circle set against a wide red stripe, bordered by thinner white and blue stripes.Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 17 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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But the other system isn’t a perfect mirror of our Solar System—a brown dwarf also orbiting the star may have played a part in the Earth-like planet’s survival, experts tell The New York Times.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 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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Scientists predict that in roughly 6 billion years, the Sun will run out of hydrogen and begin to die, transforming into a red giant.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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The nova, also referred to as a thermonuclear explosion, occurs when enough material from the red giant builds up in the white dwarf to power a bright outburst.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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