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Thus, if free-floating planetary mass objects are indeed brown dwarfs, the sheer number of them seen as binary systems is difficult to explain.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
In contrast, stars, including brown dwarfs, form on their own within giant collapsing clouds of gas.
—Byadam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 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
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025
In contrast, stars, including brown dwarfs, form on their own within giant collapsing clouds of gas.
—Byadam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 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
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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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Normally, neutrons are bound within atomic nuclei or in the matter making up extraordinarily powerful stars called neutron stars.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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Astronomers have theorized that supernovas such as these are caused by two white dwarfs orbiting each other in a binary star system, when one of them consumes the other.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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The binary star system discovered in the new study is the heaviest of its kind that's ever been confirmed, with a combined mass that's 1.56 times that of the sun.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 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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The back-and-forth motion was due to another star’s gravity tugging on the red dwarf.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
14 Mar. 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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There are simply too many variables to consider, including the genetic influence of does on their male offspring and the role that maturity plays in antler growth.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.—
Amit Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
17 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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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Type 1a supernovas are very helpful for scientists, because supernovas tend to explode with roughly the same amount of energy.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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