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of spectral class M appear red; they are (depending on their size) referred to as "red giants" or "red dwarfs". A red dwarf is a small and relatively cool...

the main sequence; most stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs" is called a red dwarf. Stars/Dwarfs/Whites Stars/Evolutions Stars/Flares Stars/Infrareds...

systems and Aurelia. The text below assumes those scientists who think red dwarfs are habitable are correct. Life in caves could gradually adapt to exploit...

red dwarf. Due to their low luminosity, individual red dwarfs cannot easily be observed. From Earth, none are visible to the naked eye. The red dwarf...

white dwarf. "White dwarfs are end-products of stellar evolution. The fundamental properties of the dominant group of nonmagnetic white dwarfs have been...

the infrared instead of the red, why are these M-class main sequence stars called red dwarfs rather than infrared dwarfs? Click on the link to the Wikipedia...

white dwarfs varies over a wide color range, from the blue-white color of an O-type main sequence star to the red of a M-type red dwarf. White dwarf effective...

reason for periodic changes in brightness on blue dwarfs. 5 Phenomena associated with some brown dwarfs are which of the following? 6 True or False, BI...

of their red dwarf companions are difficult to determine, but are both thought to have less than half the mass of the Sun. The two red dwarfs of Castor...

Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects that have fully convective surfaces and interiors, with no chemical differentiation by depth. Brown dwarfs occupy...

temperature of 4,111 K, giving it the red-orange hue of an M-type star. Period: some ten to one hundred days. Dwarf "novae whose brightness keeps changing...

shows two young brown dwarfs, objects that fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass. Brown dwarfs are cooler and less...

referring to white dwarfs. Yellow subdwarfs are in luminosity class VI. "[Y]ellow high-velocity subdwarfs are easily confused with white dwarfs in a proper-motion...

referred to as being spheres of plasma. Eventually, white dwarfs will fade into black dwarfs over a very long period of time. In larger stars, fusion continues...

surface of white dwarf stars. The visible light lasts for weeks or months, and is distinctively red in colour, becoming dimmer and redder over time. As the...

Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects that have fully convective surfaces and interiors, with no chemical differentiation by depth. Brown dwarfs occupy...

and AT Microscopii) were discovered in 1924. Most flare stars are dim red dwarfs. The more massive RS Canum Venaticorum variables (RS CVn) are also known...

as the lithium test ... Some brown dwarfs emit X-rays; and all "warm" dwarfs continue to glow tellingly in the red and infrared spectra until they cool...

multiples of 5 light-years. Stars/Binaries Stars/Blues Stars/Dwarfs Stars/Nova-likes Stars/Reds Stars/Sirius/Quiz Stars/X-rays Adelman, Saul J. (July 8, 2004)...

energy source, brown dwarfs are intrinsically faint and draw their energy from a very gradual shrinkage or collapse. Young brown dwarfs, like young stars...