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The process of expending off energy makes a dying star what's called a red giant, before the white dwarf remains.
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025
At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago.
—CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025
Search for life on planets orbiting white dwarfs Astronomers haven’t yet found any Earth-like, habitable exoplanets around white dwarfs.
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
As the two orbit each other, the intense gravity of the white dwarf pulls gas off the red giant star.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025
At the heart of this bipolar nebula is a white dwarf star that cast aside its outer layers of gas long ago.
—CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025
Search for life on planets orbiting white dwarfs Astronomers haven’t yet found any Earth-like, habitable exoplanets around white dwarfs.
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
As the two orbit each other, the intense gravity of the white dwarf pulls gas off the red giant star.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white dwarf
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Learning about these highly energized neutrinos could lead to discoveries about where in the universe they might have been created, such as black holes and neutron star collisions — the latter of which are the most powerful classes of explosions in the cosmos.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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But when a binary star about to go supernova threatens the planet Adjumir, Maw’s beloved Gebre entrusts him with an artifact and the order to leave him behind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Lohan put her right hand in the shot, showing off a bubble bath pink natural nail polish as well as a small red star tattoo.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Big, hot, blue stars live shorter lives, while tiny, cool, red stars live for much longer.—
Stephen DiKerby,
The Conversation,
24 Nov. 2025
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Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.—
Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 2026
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In another imaging campaign, API, assisted by AMIGO, was able to produce detailed images of a black hole jet, the volcanic surface of Jupiter's moon Io, and stellar winds emanating from a distant variable star.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Of course, prices aren't the only variable that negotiations hinge on.—
Darius Tahir,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2026
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Progress one variable at a time—either speed or workout length.—
Stephanie Anderson Witmer,
Health,
6 Feb. 2026
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The star, named StKM 1-1262, is a red dwarf star about 130 light-years from Earth.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Nov. 2025
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With help from the ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory, the team traced the energy waves to a red dwarf located around 130 light-years away from Earth known as StKM 1-1262.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 Nov. 2025
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The second scenario suggests a star or a smaller stellar body like a brown dwarf or even a planet could have encountered the immense gravitational influence of a black hole or a neutron star, resulting in a smaller, less powerful TDE-type event called a micro-tidal disruption event.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
9 Dec. 2025
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This causes the outer layers of the star to expand and cool, evolving into a red giant, while the interior of the core heats up, intensifying the rate of fusion within it.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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As the red giant expels gas, the white dwarf pulls in this material until enough accumulates on its surface to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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“White dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20dwarf. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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