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red dwarf star [′red ¦dwȯrf ′stär] (astronomy) A red star of low luminosity, so designated by E. Hertzsprung; dwarf stars are commonly those main-sequence stars fainter than an absolute magnitude of +1, and red dwarfs are the faintest and coolest of the dwarfs. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Residing just 32 light-years from Earth, AU Microscopii is the first red dwarf star found to have a debris disk. Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley monitored the red dwarf star Gliese 436 at the Keck Observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea. |
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