The brown-dwarf desert is a theorized range of orbits around a star within which brown dwarfs are unlikely to be found as companion objects. This is usually...
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Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Their...
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A dwarf star is a star of relatively small size and low luminosity. Most main sequence stars are dwarf stars. The meaning of the word "dwarf" was later...
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super-Earth and Jovian exoplanets, similar to the reasons for the brown-dwarf desert. The exoplanet NGTS-4b, with mass of 20 ME, and a radius 20% smaller...
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A sub-brown dwarf or planetary-mass brown dwarf is an astronomical object that formed in the same manner as stars and brown dwarfs (i.e. through the collapse...
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list of notable brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. The first isolated brown dwarf discovered was...
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dwarfs is one observational limit on the universe's age. The name "black dwarf" has also been applied to hypothetical late-stage cooled brown dwarfs –...
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G-type main-sequence star (redirect from G-type dwarf)
star (spectral type: G-V), also often, and imprecisely, called a yellow dwarf, or G star, is a main-sequence star (luminosity class V) of spectral type...
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blue dwarf is a hypothetical class of star that develops from a red dwarf after it has exhausted much of its hydrogen fuel supply. Because red dwarfs fuse...
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K-type main-sequence star (redirect from Orange dwarf)
A K-type main-sequence star, also referred to as a K-type dwarf, or orange dwarf, is a main-sequence (hydrogen-burning) star of spectral type K and luminosity...
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These red dwarfs have spectral types of L0 to L2. There is some overlap with the properties of brown dwarfs, since the most massive brown dwarfs at lower...
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Planetary nebulae Timeline of stellar astronomy Related Substellar object Brown dwarf Desert Sub Planet Galactic year Galaxy Guest Gravity Intergalactic Planet-hosting...
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the galactic bulge of the Milky Way. “Since the existence of the brown dwarf desert is the signature of different formation mechanisms for stars and planets...
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Strange star (section Strange dwarf stars)
stars could survive to this day. Hypothetical strange-quark dwarfs would be white dwarf stars with strange-quark cores. Some studies predict these objects...
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they may have been very massive Population III stars. Such stars would dwarf VY Canis Majoris, Mu Cephei and VV Cephei A, three among the largest known...
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transfer blue stragglers at the outskirts. The discovery of low-mass white dwarf companions around two blue stragglers in the Kepler field suggests these...
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Planetary nebulae Timeline of stellar astronomy Related Substellar object Brown dwarf Desert Sub Planet Galactic year Galaxy Guest Gravity Intergalactic Planet-hosting...
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population III stars. Clusters containing zero-metallicity red dwarfs or brown dwarfs (possibly created by pair-instability supernovae) have been proposed...
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S2CID 118669175. Camenzind, Max (2007). Compact Objects in Astrophysics: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes. Astronomy and astrophysics library. Berlin ;...
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F-type main-sequence star (redirect from Yellow-white dwarf)
is referred to as a dwarf star, this class of star may also be termed a yellow-white dwarf (not to be confused with white dwarfs, remnant stars that are...
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