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  2. List of white dwarfs - Wikipedia

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    Sirius B: 1852 Sirius system Sirius B is also the nearest white dwarf (as of 2005) [1] [2] First found in a binary star system First double white dwarf system LDS 275: 1944 L 462-56 system [3] First solitary white dwarf Van Maanen 2: 1917 Van Maanen's star is also the nearest solitary white dwarf [4] First white dwarf with a planet WD B1620− ...

  3. White dwarf - Wikipedia

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    White dwarfs with hydrogen-poor atmospheres, such as WD J2147–4035, are less affected by CIA and therefore have a yellow to orange color. [80] [77] The white dwarf cooling sequence seen by ESA's Gaia mission. White dwarf core material is a completely ionized plasma – a mixture of nuclei and electrons – that is

  4. A-type main-sequence star - Wikipedia

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    The revised Yerkes Atlas system [7] listed a dense grid of A-type dwarf spectral standard stars, but not all of these have survived to this day as standards. The "anchor points" and "dagger standards" of the MK spectral classification system among the A-type main-sequence dwarf stars, i.e. those standard stars that have remained unchanged over years and can be considered to define the system ...

  5. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Sirius A and B

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  6. Binary star - Wikipedia

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    The well-known binary star Sirius, seen here in a Hubble photograph from 2005, with Sirius A in the center, and white dwarf, Sirius B, to the left bottom from it. A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.

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  8. File:Sirius A and B Hubble photo.editted.PNG - Wikipedia

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  9. Sirius - Wikipedia

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    Sirius is a binary star consisting of a main-sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, termed Sirius B. The distance between the two varies between 8.2 and 31.5 astronomical units as they orbit every 50 years.