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Attention has instead turned to small, red dwarf stars, or M-dwarfs, which are between 10% and 60% of the size of the Sun and less than 7% as bright.
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
That was never going to be easy, because red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 tend to be tempestuous, erupting and flaring in ways that can blast away atmospheres and also confound the weak atmospheric signal JWST is trying to detect.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
For example, the habitable zone is closer to a smaller, cooler star (like a red dwarf) and farther from a larger, hotter star.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
Gliese 12 b orbits a cool, red dwarf star and takes 12.8 days to complete an orbit.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
That was never going to be easy, because red dwarfs like TRAPPIST-1 tend to be tempestuous, erupting and flaring in ways that can blast away atmospheres and also confound the weak atmospheric signal JWST is trying to detect.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
For example, the habitable zone is closer to a smaller, cooler star (like a red dwarf) and farther from a larger, hotter star.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
Gliese 12 b orbits a cool, red dwarf star and takes 12.8 days to complete an orbit.
—Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red dwarf
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The Blaze Star has become a white dwarf, which happens when stars have exhausted their nuclear fuels.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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The other is a white dwarf, the small and dense core of a dead star.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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The collisions of compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars emit strong gravitational waves.Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
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The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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As Parker pointed out, many stars are born with a binary partner from the same cloud and become binary stars.Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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Some scientists speculate that these objects may be the remnants of previous binary star mergers, suggesting that D9 could offer a glimpse into their origin.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 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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However, Shotton also highlighted a study by Charles Spence that attempts to isolate the effort variable.Roger Dooley, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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This leaves plenty of time for variables, for temperature fluctuations, and for off flavors to seep into the coffee from the fridge.Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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This region, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 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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In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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However, by then, the sun will have exhausted its hydrogen fuel and be expanding into a red giant star, either consuming Earth or boiling away its oceans.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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