How to Use red dwarf in a Sentence

red dwarf

noun

• The cool red dwarf star, Trappist-1, is 40 light years from Earth.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2017
• The star, Gliese 887, is a small, dim red dwarf star with about half the mass of our sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 June 2020
• At the heart of this system is a small, dim star called a red dwarf.
  — Kaitlin Rasmussen, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
• Not when the sun becomes a red dwarf in billions of years.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2022
• Barnard’s star is also a very small and dim type of star known as a red dwarf.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• It’s known as VHS 1256 b and orbits two small red dwarf stars.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 Sep. 2022
• The star is a red dwarf star that's roughly half as massive as our sun.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 25 June 2020
• The star, known as GJ887, is a red dwarf that's roughly half as massive as our sun.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 25 June 2020
• At the shorter distance, a year in the life of a red dwarf planet is only 10 to 30 days.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
• But the red dwarf star is also much cooler than our sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• The most common star in our galaxy is a red dwarf, smaller and dimmer than the Sun.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2019
• These dips in light are caused by planets passing in front of the small, cool, red dwarf star at the center of the system.
  — Joey Rodriguez - Michigan State University, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• That star will likely be a small red dwarf, barely a fraction of our sun’s mass.
  — Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• Those are precisely the wavelengths at which these small red dwarf stars give off most of their light.
  — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
• Its sun is not a hot yellow star like ours, but a smaller, cooler red dwarf.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2019
• But Kepler-1649c orbits a red dwarf star, much smaller and cooler than our sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020
• Our yellow sun, for instance, is not so mediocre in a galaxy where red dwarf stars are the norm.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 18 June 2020
• The beam was found from the direction of the star Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star 4.2 light years from Earth.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2020
• In the 1960s, an astronomer named Peter van de Kamp claimed to have found a Jupiter-sized world around Barnard’s star after studying how the red dwarf moved.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
• Three rocky planets orbited the red dwarf YZ Ceti, a cosmic stone’s throw away.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• This consists of seven rocky Earth-sized planets in orbit around a cool red dwarf star.
  — Chris Holt, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022
• The tiny, tiny red dwarf is just barely big enough to be considered a star, and is, radius-wise, a hair bigger than Jupiter.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2017
• Both planets circle a red dwarf star, and one, known as LP 890-9c, might even be habitable.
  — CBS News, 8 May 2024
• Because red dwarfs are so much cooler than our Sun, the planet can be this close without getting charred to a crisp.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2016
• All this doesn't rule out an atmosphere for every planet around a red dwarf.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2019
• The problem is, the planet closely hugs its parent star, a red dwarf, and lies well outside the habitable zone.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
• But eventually, all stars, including the red dwarfs, will come to an end.
  — Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
• The planet completes a single orbit around its red dwarf host star every 2 Earth days.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• In general, nature tends to make few big objects and lots of little ones; for example, high-mass stars are rare, and lower-mass ones such as red dwarfs are common.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
• And since the red dwarf is still hot, there will eventually be a spark that triggers a runaway nuclear fusion reaction.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024