Sentence examples for red dwarf star from inspiring English sources

Apps noted that the precise colors of KOI-961, which is some 120 light-years away from Earth, are exactly like those of a much nearer red dwarf star known as Barnard's Star.

The third component, Proxima, of 11th magnitude, is a red dwarf star.

He theorized that Krypton could have orbited a red dwarf star in the Corvus constellation, 27 light years from Earth.

The other discovery was made around Gliese 876, a red dwarf star only one-third the mass of the Sun.

It orbits a small red dwarf star that emits almost all of its luminosity at infrared wavelengths, which may be difficult for life to harness.

It is a red dwarf star with a visual magnitude of 9.5; its intrinsic luminosity is only 1/2,600 that of the Sun.

The nature of the unseen objects remained elusive, although candidates included brown dwarfs, red dwarf stars, and white dwarf stars.

Red dwarf stars have masses from about 0.08 to 0.6 times that of the Sun.

(Objects smaller than red dwarf stars are called brown dwarfs and do not shine through the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen).

While stars like the Sun have a lifetime of about 10 billion years, even the oldest red dwarf stars have not yet exhausted their internal supplies of hydrogen.

Previous claims of Goldilocks planets with "just so" orbits snuggled up to red dwarf stars much dimmer and cooler than the Sun have had uncertainties in the size and mass and even the existence of these worlds, said David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an exoplanet hunter and member of the Kepler team.