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Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth.
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John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
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
During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
Our star will eventually become a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf billions of years from now.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
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
During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
Our star will eventually become a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf billions of years from now.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 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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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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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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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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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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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 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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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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