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brown dwarf

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Recent Examples of brown dwarf Instead Hoy and his colleagues used the radial velocity method to look for wobbles in the brown dwarf. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 July 2026 Orbiting this star is a brown dwarf, which is a type of gas giant that is larger than a planet, yet smaller than a star. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 July 2026 The brown dwarf creates gravitational instability at distances equivalent to the distance between Mars and the sun, but this didn't prevent planets from forming in the system. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 June 2026 What’s left is likely to be a large gas giant, possibly somewhere between Jupiter and a brown dwarf star in mass. — ArsTechnica, 2 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for brown dwarf

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The white dwarf emits radiation and produces a giant gas bubble—the lion’s face—that destroys dust in its path.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
This oxygen-rich remnant is a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dying star.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of white dwarf

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Hubble’s images reveal an intricate web of gas and dust spreading outward from the explosion’s center, where a rapidly spinning neutron star remains.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
After the explosion, Betelgeuse A will probably leave behind a superdense neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of neutron star

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The twinkling point of light to the moon's upper left is the binary star system Alpha Virginis, also known as Spica, which shines as the brightest point in the constellation Virgo.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026
The study has major implications for studying binary star systems as well.

— Damien Pine, Scientific American, 21 July 2026

Definition of binary star

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Betelgeuse has a companion star In 2019, astronomers noticed a strange dimming in the light from Betelgeuse, a bright red star in the Orion constellation.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026
After a welcome presentation and cocktail party—Kir Royales in hand—slip into Moments, the onboard restaurant by German Michelin‑starred chef David Görne, whose cooking has held a red star since 2016 and a Green Star for sustainability since 2020.

— Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

Definition of red star

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That gets the paper 59 trillion km thick, or just more than six light-years (just past another red dwarf, Barnard’s Star, for that matter).

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026
This binary consists of a pre-main-sequence star that has gathered mass but hasn't yet triggered the fusion of hydrogen to helium in its core, and its companion, a red dwarf star.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of red dwarf

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In the past, the field of experimental science was a slow endeavor as scientists were limited to changing one variable at a time before recording an experiment’s results.

— Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026
Input any value for this variable, and the equation gives you an infinite sum that adds up to another number—its output.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of variable

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This variable star is also located 250 light-years from Earth, but is sadly lost from view in the glare of the sun during the summer months.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 June 2026
Mroz counters, however, that none of those cases are actual microlensing events and instead the mere fluctuations of ordinary variable stars.

— Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026

Definition of variable star

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There are a few ways these stars can get kicked up to these speeds, but one is to orbit a star that goes supernova.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026
These outflows, scientists say, inject an amount of energy comparable to several billion supernova explosions, driving turbulence through hot gas across distances of roughly 300,000 light-years —far beyond the boundaries of the host galaxy itself.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

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