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This means one of the brown dwarfs eclipses the other, as seen from our vantage point on Earth.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Scientists think one possibility is that the auroras are driven by an orbiting planet or moon interacting with the brown dwarf’s intense magnetic field.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
The brown dwarf is unlikely to be habitable, as it was found to be about 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 200 degrees Celsius.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
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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Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Scientists think one possibility is that the auroras are driven by an orbiting planet or moon interacting with the brown dwarf’s intense magnetic field.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2025
The brown dwarf is unlikely to be habitable, as it was found to be about 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 200 degrees Celsius.
—Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brown dwarf
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Indeed, most white dwarfs are seen to have extremely pure atmospheres of just those two lighter elements.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2025
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Sporadic radio pulses from a white dwarf binary at the orbital period Max Planck Institute.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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These waves may also create detectable radio signals, potentially allowing astronomers to catch two distinct bursts from a single neutron star–black hole collision.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
5 June 2025
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With their extremely strong magnetic fields, these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
31 May 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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After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Steinhardt, however, has an alternate hypothesis: Some post-starburst galaxies may be, unbeknownst to us, slowly forming small, red stars over time.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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According to Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a supergiant red star that’s located in the constellation named Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
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But Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, with just a fraction of the sun's brightness and size.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 May 2025
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The planet in question, imaginatively named K2-18b, is about two and a half times the size of Earth and orbits a red dwarf star.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The lab, founded in 1961, is still known worldwide for its computer modeling of the planet that enable scientists to make projections for how climate change may affect global temperatures, precipitation, extreme weather events and other variables.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Exposing environment variables to unknown inference endpoints off the security team’s radar.—
Anshu Bansal,
Forbes.com,
5 June 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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The Doctor used the Vindicator, now a part of the Palace clock, to blast Omega with the power of a billion supernovas, forcing him back into his cage.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
31 May 2025
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Either way, supernovas produce a bevy of elements, from the lighter common ones to the rarer heavier ones.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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