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First white dwarf with a planet WD B1620−26: 2003 PSR B1620-26 b (planet) This planet is a circumbinary planet, which circles both stars in the PSR B1620-26 system [5] [6] First singular white dwarf with a planet WD 1145+017: 2015 WD 1145+017 b: Planet is extremely small and is disintegrating. First white dwarf that is a pulsar: AR Scorpii A ...
The Prose and Poetic Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of dwarfs.While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are included here for the purpose of completeness.
This is a list of brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. [1] The first isolated brown dwarf discovered was Teide 1 in 1995. [2] The first brown dwarf discovered orbiting a star was Gliese 229 B, also discovered in 1995. [3] The first brown dwarf found to have a planet was 2M1207, discovered ...
Two dwarfs as depicted in a 19th-century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. A dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history; however, they are commonly, but not exclusively, presented as living in mountains or stones ...
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram showing the location of main sequence dwarf stars and white dwarfs. A dwarf star is a star of relatively small size and low luminosity. Most main sequence stars are dwarf stars. The meaning of the word "dwarf" was later extended to some star-sized objects that are not stars, and compact stellar remnants that ...
Find out what they’re called, and learn a fun fact about each. You can learn more about each of these animals, too, by Baby Animals 101: Fun Names and Surprising Facts
The following is a list of names of the Seven Dwarfs from various adaptations of the Snow White story. Some adaptations do not name the dwarfs, have seven non-dwarfs (such as the seven Leafe Knights in the anime Prétear - The New Legend of Snow White) or omit them altogether (as in the 1998 opera Schneewittchen).
1. Poodle. Poodles come from Germany, where they were called “Pudelhund." This meant something like “puddle, water or splashing dog" because poodles were used to hunt water birds, so you can ...