Library / English Dictionary

RED DWARF STAR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small, old, relatively cool star; approximately 100 times the mass of Jupiter

Synonyms:

red dwarf; red dwarf star

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("red dwarf star" is a kind of...):

star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red dwarf star"):

flare star (a red dwarf star in which luminosity can change several magnitudes in a few minutes)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Astronomers at the Center for Space Exochemistry Data at the University College London in the United Kingdom used data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to find water vapor in the atmosphere of K2-18b, an exoplanet around a small red dwarf star about 110 light-years away in the constellation Leo.

(Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for 1st Time, NASA)