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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.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The spectra also showed the red dwarf’s glow was mixed with blue light.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
The potential problem here is that red dwarfs spend a long time dimming during their early phases, which means planets in their habitable zone may have originally been too close to the star and, therefore, too hot.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The spectra also showed the red dwarf’s glow was mixed with blue light.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 4 Dec. 2024
The potential problem here is that red dwarfs spend a long time dimming during their early phases, which means planets in their habitable zone may have originally been too close to the star and, therefore, too hot.
—Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red 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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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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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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On the matter of planet or brown dwarf, Stefánsson's team remain open-minded.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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This graphic compares a Sun-like star with a red dwarf, a typical brown dwarf, an ultra-cool brown dwarf, and a planet like Jupiter.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Jan. 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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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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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 the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.—
Mihir Zaveri,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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