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Recent Examples of white dwarf
The show’s soul, however, is the central relationship between Legoshi, a male gray wolf, and Haru, a female white dwarf rabbit.
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Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 2 May 2025
Research has shown that type Ia supernovae originate from some binary star systems containing at least one white dwarf.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
This object has a bipolar, cylindrical outflow of gas, propelled by radiation and stellar winds from a hot white dwarf at the center.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025
The first pathway involves a vampire white dwarf gradually stealing material from a close companion star and accreting it onto its surface.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 2 May 2025
Research has shown that type Ia supernovae originate from some binary star systems containing at least one white dwarf.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
This object has a bipolar, cylindrical outflow of gas, propelled by radiation and stellar winds from a hot white dwarf at the center.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025
The first pathway involves a vampire white dwarf gradually stealing material from a close companion star and accreting it onto its surface.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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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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Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
7 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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The binary star system discovered in the new study is the heaviest of its kind that's ever been confirmed, with a combined mass that's 1.56 times that of the sun.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 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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The tricolor has horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, with three red stars down the center stripe, which in the 1930s represented the three main states of Aleppo, Damascus, and Deir Ezzor.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 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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Discovered in 1916 by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnard’s Star is a small and slow-burning red dwarf classified by astronomers as an M-type star.—
Tom Metcalfe,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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Multiple kinds of observations from a variety of instruments led groups to a rare phenomenon: a white dwarf tightly orbiting a red dwarf every 125 minutes.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 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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Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the finale at the end of a giant star’s life.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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With so many options and variables, Feldman said the choice comes down to individual needs and preferences.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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The bonuses are also influenced by other variables, including in-game interviews with players and the TV ratings their games generate.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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