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For example, the habitable zone is closer to a smaller, cooler star (like a red dwarf) and farther from a larger, hotter star.
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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
The candidate stars are all red dwarfs, the most common type of star in our galaxy.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 13 June 2024
The star, Proxima Centauri, is a tad nearer to Earth and is a red dwarf, the most common kind of star.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
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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
The candidate stars are all red dwarfs, the most common type of star in our galaxy.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 13 June 2024
The star, Proxima Centauri, is a tad nearer to Earth and is a red dwarf, the most common kind of star.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
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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
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During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
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These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star, much denser neutron star, or another black hole.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
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There are even proposals to use gravitational-wave signals from merging black holes and neutron stars.Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 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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More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 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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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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Among these hundreds of millions of tiny specks of light lurk newborn stars, extremely cold brown dwarfs that only glow at infrared wavelengths, free-floating planets, and globular clusters—groupings containing millions of the Milky Way’s oldest stars in existence.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Sep. 2024
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Finally, The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index (NAI), a comprehensive index composed of 85 national variables, showed up as -0.28 in September, negative now for four months in a row.Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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Any variable would have led to very different results.Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 25 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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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
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That appears to be what happened some 4000 light-years away, allowing a planet similar in mass and orbital position to slide twice as far from its star, surviving the star’s expansion into a red giant and subsequent contraction into a white dwarf.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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