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But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.
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Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
Such white dwarf stars are the hot, glowing stellar cores left behind when dying sunlike stars blow off their outer layers.
—Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Scientists are hoping to study the nova to discover what happens when the material is blasted from the white dwarf and distributed into neighboring galaxies, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
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Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
Such white dwarf stars are the hot, glowing stellar cores left behind when dying sunlike stars blow off their outer layers.
—Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Scientists are hoping to study the nova to discover what happens when the material is blasted from the white dwarf and distributed into neighboring galaxies, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
Hounsell said white dwarf stars aren't much larger in size than planet Earth.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 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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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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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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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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That is the result of the unusual characteristics of their tiny and cool host red dwarf star, which can mimic atmospheric signals that are already weak and hard to detect.Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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However, red dwarf stars have starspots and eruptions that interfere with measurements.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 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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Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Competitive intelligence tools track these variables in real time, keeping them ahead of rivals.Mohit Prateek, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Such variables make projections about AI's energy consumption and pollution profile tricky.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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