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PRONUNCIATION OF DWARF STAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DWARF STAR

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Dwarf star is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DWARF STAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dwarf star

The term dwarf star refers to a variety of distinct classes of stars. The term was originally coined in 1906 when the Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung noticed that the reddest stars—classified as K and M in the Harvard scheme—could be divided into two distinct groups. They are either much brighter than the Sun, or much fainter. To distinguish these groups, he called them "giant" and "dwarf" stars, the dwarf stars being fainter and the giants being brighter than the sun. The scope of the term "dwarf" was later expanded to include the following: ▪ Dwarf star alone generally refers to any main-sequence star, a star of luminosity class V. ▪ Red dwarfs are low-mass main-sequence stars. ▪ Yellow dwarfs are main-sequence stars with masses comparable to that of the Sun. ▪ A blue dwarf is a hypothesized class of very-low-mass stars that increase in temperature as they near the end of their main-sequence lifetime.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DWARF STAR

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WORDS THAT END LIKE DWARF STAR

binary star
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falling star
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morning star
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Synonyms and antonyms of dwarf star in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dwarf star» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DWARF STAR

Find out the translation of dwarf star to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dwarf star from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dwarf star» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

矮星
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estrella enana
570 millions of speakers

English

dwarf star
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बौना तारा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نجم قزم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

карлик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anã
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বামন তারকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

étoile naine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bintang kerdil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zwergstern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

矮星
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

왜성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bintang lintang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngôi sao lùn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குள்ள நட்சத்திரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बटू तारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cüce yıldızı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stella nana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

karzeł
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

карлик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stele pitice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

νάνος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dwergster
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dvärgstjärna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dvergstjerne
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DWARF STAR»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dwarf star

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DWARF STAR»

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Faster Than Light Travel & How to Destroy A Dwarf Star
(which has more mass) and a Gas Giant (which has less mass) With a Brown Dwarf star there is enough nuclear fusion within the planetoid to create heat but not as such enough fusion to create light, which requires more gravity. This extra  ...
Alan Peter Garfoot
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Astrophysics is Easy!: An Introduction for the Amateur ...
mass-radius relationship drops to zero, so that a white dwarf star with a mass equal to the Chandrasekhar limit will shrink to a very small size. But no star with a mass greater than 14M⊙ can be supported against the crush of gravity by the ...
Michael Inglis, 2007
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Guide to the Universe: Stars and Galaxies
The white dwarf star is accreting matter from its binary partner. As the material leaves the partner star, it accumulates in an accretion disk around the dwarf star. Periodically, an instability occurs in the disk (or in the other star) that causes the ...
Lauren V. Jones, 2009
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Stellar Remnants:
Depending on the phase of these oscillations at which the star leaves the AGB, it can become either a DA or a DB white dwarf star. Therefore, understanding 3.5 5.0 4.5 Log Effective Temperature (K) Fig. 12. Schematic 32 Steven D. Kawaler 4:  ...
S.D. Kawaler, Georges Meynet, Daniel Schaerer, 1997
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Encyclopedia of Earth and Space Science
The term dwarf star oddly refers to stars whose size is normal for their mass, which lie on the main sequence curve, and which are converting hydrogen to helium by nuclear fusion in their cores. Dwarfs are also classified as any star with a ...
Timothy M. Kusky, Katherine E. Cullen, 2010
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Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres
The mass, radius, or central density determines uniquely the other two, so one basically has a one-parameter family of stars. A burnt-out Sun would become a dwarf star about the size of the Earth. But for only a slightly more heavy dwarf, about ...
F. Curtis Michel, 1991
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Science of Earth Systems
An example of a red dwarf star is Barnard's star, which is approximately 5.8 light years from Earth. A light year is the distance that light travels in 1 year. Because light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, this extremely far distance is ...
Stephen D. Butz, 2002
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Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries
Gliese 229B – a very faint brown dwarf in orbit around a young dwarf star – can be seen on this Hubble photograph as an unsightly speck of light close to the overexposed image of the dwarf star. (NASA/ESA/Caltech/JHU) ...
Govert Schilling, 2011
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New Scientist
Its companion is a white dwarf star, with around the same mass, but much smaller ( about the Earth's size); its density is about a million times that of water. These two stars orbit around one another in a few hours. Stellar tug of war What makes  ...
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Universe
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Sol 90, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DWARF STAR»

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The Brittas Empire set for comeback
It featured Red Dwarf star Chris Barrie in title role as Gordon Brittas, the bumbling manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. «Broadcast, Jul 15»
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A nebula with a ring to it..
... ago things got way out of hand, and in a final expansion the star blew a vast shell of gas out into space, leaving behind a tiny white dwarf star. «KRCC, Jul 15»
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SNIPPETS-DNA may help track ivory poachers
The planet orbits a small red dwarf star in the constellation Leo. As the planet loses mass, the cloud of hydrogen atoms continues to grow. «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
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Red Dwarf's Craig Charles to return to I'm A Celebrity following the …
The Red Dwarf star previously appeared in last year's series but was forced to leave early after the tragic death of his brother, Dean. In the short ... «Metro, Jul 15»
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The Starry Dome
The remaining core of the star becomes a white dwarf star. The white dwarf draws material from is aging companion star that has ballooned up as it becomes a ... «Desertexposure, Jul 15»
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Planet with a Comet Tail
However, unlike Neptune, Gliese 436b orbits its red dwarf star in just 2.6 days, making it much warmer than our solar system's ice giant. «Sky & Telescope, Jun 15»
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UV Observation Provides Rare Insight into Supernova
Gal-Yam, fits a model in which a dwarf star has a giant companion. “The white dwarf is the mass of the Sun packed into a sphere the size of the ... «Newswise, Jun 15»
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Is GJ 436b A Super Comet With A Long Tail? No. But Earth Might …
... gas enveloping the planet does not evaporate too quickly with the amount of heat and radiation that its red dwarf star, which is relatively cool, ... «Tech Times, Jun 15»
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Exoplanet Has a Comet-Like Tail
They call it "the Behemoth." Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that a red dwarf star is boiling off the ... «Sci-Tech Today, Jun 15»
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Red dwarf star cooks exoplanet, leaving a 'comet-like tail' (+video)
New X-ray observations appear to show the exoplanet GJ 436b as a nearby red dwarf star burns off hydrogen from its atmosphere. «Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15»

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