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Recent Examples of brown dwarf
As expected with these diminutive masses, brown dwarfs are rarely found in binaries.
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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
Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
Among these hundreds of millions of tiny specks of light lurk newborn stars, extremely cold brown dwarfs that only glow at infrared wavelengths, free-floating planets, and globular clusters—groupings containing millions of the Milky Way’s oldest stars in existence.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
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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
Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
Among these hundreds of millions of tiny specks of light lurk newborn stars, extremely cold brown dwarfs that only glow at infrared wavelengths, free-floating planets, and globular clusters—groupings containing millions of the Milky Way’s oldest stars in existence.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brown dwarf
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But further observations of this and other white dwarf stars would be needed to clarify the conundrum.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
9 Mar. 2025
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Type Ia supernova explosions spur the destruction of white dwarf stars that have accreted too much mass.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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As the star's core rapidly crushes down to form a neutron star, the outer layers and most of the star's mass are blown away in a core-collapse supernova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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Hypervelocity stars are thought to be created when a binary star system gets too close to a supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 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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Reports of earthquake felt away from source (red star) on February 14, 2025.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Barnard’s star is a red dwarf star, a low-mass, cool star that comprises about 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Avalanche terrain is a world of numerous variables, contradictions, and compounding human error.—
Ashley Thess,
Outdoor Life,
14 Mar. 2025
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Mapping across every Premier League game since the start of last season, there is a subtle but statistically significant positive correlation between the two variables — which suggests that winning your second balls does have a relationship with stronger team performance.—
Mark Carey,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 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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In fact, type Ia supernovas were integral to the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, the genesis of dark energy, back in 1998.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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That means that this dataset of nearby supernovas is several times larger than previous similar samples.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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