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Recent Examples of brown dwarf
The cool brown dwarf Gliese 229 B is a close binary
European Southern Observatory.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
Three teams have identified a dozen or so brown dwarfs between three and eight Jupiter masses—and no smaller.
—Byadam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 2024
As expected with these diminutive masses, brown dwarfs are rarely found in binaries.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
Three teams have identified a dozen or so brown dwarfs between three and eight Jupiter masses—and no smaller.
—Byadam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 2024
As expected with these diminutive masses, brown dwarfs are rarely found in binaries.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brown dwarf
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The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2024
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Previously, long radio bursts were only traced to neutron stars, the dense remnants left after a colossal stellar explosion.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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Previously, long-period radio bursts like this one had only been traced back to neutron stars, meaning this work puts an entirely new spin on their origins.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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The unprecedented observations of such bright, long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning, astronomers say.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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Astronomers suggest that supermassive black holes create hypervelocity stars when binary stars (a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other) get too close.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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One day this boy wants to be a red star inside those red walls.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Pinilla added that, thanks to the incredible capabilities of ALMA, astronomers are finally able to characterize the small and faint disks around red dwarf stars that are only 10% to 50% the mass of our sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Similar compact systems of small planets have been detected around many other red dwarf stars, which are the most common stars in the universe, says Rice University planetary scientist André Izidoro, who was not involved in the study.—
Tom Metcalfe,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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Importantly, the two groups, only a few weeks apart in age, were not expected to differ significantly from one another, which would reduce the probability of confounding variables.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Apr. 2025
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How other countries respond to the tariffs is another variable to consider.—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 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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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Identifying details in pre-explosion images can help inform the how, when and why supernovas occur.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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Over five years, their telescope in the Chilean Andes snapped high-resolution photographs of 12% of the sky, creating the most extensive catalog of supernovas to date and locating the same spherical shells traced out by many millions of galaxies (albeit with less precision than DESI).—
Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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