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Since it was discovered in 2015, K2-18b, which orbits a red dwarf star more than 120 light-years from Earth, has captivated scientists who have considered it among the best potential life-harboring ocean worlds.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
In 1963, Dutch scientist Peter van de Kamp claimed to have discovered the first exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star, but the discovery was later found to be an error related to disturbances in his telescope.
—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
The back-and-forth motion was due to another star’s gravity tugging on the red dwarf.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Pinilla added that, thanks to the incredible capabilities of ALMA, astronomers are finally able to characterize the small and faint disks around red dwarf stars that are only 10% to 50% the mass of our sun.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
In 1963, Dutch scientist Peter van de Kamp claimed to have discovered the first exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star, but the discovery was later found to be an error related to disturbances in his telescope.
—Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
The back-and-forth motion was due to another star’s gravity tugging on the red dwarf.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
Pinilla added that, thanks to the incredible capabilities of ALMA, astronomers are finally able to characterize the small and faint disks around red dwarf stars that are only 10% to 50% the mass of our sun.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red 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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The gravitational pull of the star's remains would have been strong enough to crush together protons and electrons to form neutrons, meaning a neutron star is mostly made of neutrons.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
22 May 2025
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Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 May 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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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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However, in this case, there are two brown dwarfs involved here.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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Evidence for a polar circumbinary exoplanet orbiting a pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Another determinative variable would be how quickly rival countries will seize the opportunity to attract disillusioned investors with favorable tax regimes and strategic incentives.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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There are a lot of variables that go into the mix between the physical maturity, the offensive tools, the character and the body of work can comprise over 100 games at varying levels of competition with different levels of stakes.—
Corey Pronman,
New York Times,
22 May 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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Brightest among the stars captured in Meyer's colorful portrait is the aging red giant Antares, which can be found illuminating the right hand side of the cosmic vista.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
10 May 2025
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There’s a key reference in Thunderbolts* to a U.S. president turning into a red giant, which is a major plot point in Brave New World.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
1 May 2025
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“Red dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20dwarf. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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