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  2. BPM 37093 - Wikipedia

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    BPM 37093 (V886 Centauri) is a variable white dwarf star of the DAV, or ZZ Ceti, type, with a hydrogen atmosphere and an unusually high mass of approximately 1.1 times the Sun's. It is 48 light-years (15 parsecs ) from Earth in the constellation Centaurus and vibrates; these pulsations cause its luminosity to vary .

  3. White dwarf - Wikipedia

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    A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the Sun's and its volume Earth's. No nuclear fusion takes place in a white dwarf; what light it radiates is from its residual heat. [1]

  4. List of white dwarfs - Wikipedia

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    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 B1620−26: 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 ...

  5. G 240-72 - Wikipedia

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    G 240-72 is the seventh closest white dwarf (after Sirius B, Procyon B, van Maanen's star, Gliese 440, 40 Eridani B and Stein 2051 B). Its trigonometric parallax is 0.1647 ± 0.0024 arcsec , [ 5 ] corresponding to a distance 6.07 ± 0.09 pc , or 19.80 +0.29

  6. List of nearest stars - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, astronomers have found 6 white dwarfs (stars that have exhausted all fusible hydrogen), 21 brown dwarfs, as well as 1 sub-brown dwarf, WISE 0855−0714 (possibly a rogue planet). The closest system is Alpha Centauri , with Proxima Centauri as the closest star in that system, at 4.2465 light-years from Earth.

  7. GRW +70 8247 - Wikipedia

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    GRW +70 8247 is a white dwarf star located 42 light-years from Earth [1] in the constellation Draco. With a magnitude of about 13 it is visible only through a large telescope . Properties

  8. Sirius - Wikipedia

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    Sirius is a binary star system consisting of two white stars orbiting each other with a separation of about 20 AU [e] (roughly the distance between the Sun and Uranus) and a period of 50.1 years. The brighter component, termed Sirius A, is a main-sequence star of spectral type early A , with an estimated surface temperature of 9,940 K . [ 14 ]

  9. List of nearest stars by spectral type - Wikipedia

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    It is the 2nd/3rd nearest individual star to the Solar System, and the fourth-brightest individual star in the night sky. Has one candidate exoplanet. Tau Ceti: 11.912 ± 0.007: G8V [74] 0.793 ± 0.004 [118] 0.783 ± 0.012 [118] 3.5 [118] 5.68 [118] Also the 20nd nearest star system to the Solar System. Has one confirmed exoplanet. Eta ...