Patrick Robinson, the name of the author, dominates the cover in tall, embossed lettering which dwarfs the title. |
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Most of the life in the universe could bask in the ruddy light of red dwarfs. |
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Astronomers know little about the strength of stellar winds around young stars and red dwarfs. |
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Unlike stars like the Sun, brown dwarfs don't have enough mass to generate energy through nuclear fusion. |
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Both extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs give off most of their energy in the infrared region of the spectrum. |
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The research team targeted young stars since planets and brown dwarfs are brighter when they are young. |
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This lead may account for the missing evidence of red dwarfs forming planetary systems. |
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Some white dwarfs are in binary systems, that means they are in orbit around another star. |
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Unlike the dwarfs, Bilbo cherishes friendship and merriment over gold and wealth. |
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All of a sudden an army of goblins and dwarfs started marching towards them. |
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In seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe, royalty collected the extremely tall and extremely short in the form of court giants or dwarfs. |
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Shrek has over thirty fully-rendered characters as well as various fairies, pixies, gnomes, and dwarfs which appear mostly all in one scene. |
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Some conifer enthusiasts site their miniatures and dwarfs in sandy soils and water minimally. |
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The more striking graphics can be seen with the summoned titans, whose immense size dwarfs buildings and other units. |
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In contrast to achondroplastic dwarfs, hypopituitary dwarfs often suffer from underlying metabolic health problems. |
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It dwarfs all the other buildings in the area and exudes an air of bureaucratic intransigence and implacable arrogance. |
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The average chromospheric activity level in the early F-type stars is statistically identical in the three clusters and in field dwarfs. |
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Creatures such as elves, ogres, hobbits, dwarfs, and orcs roamed this realm freely. |
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We have completed the most extensive survey to date for low mass stellar and substellar companions to white dwarfs in the solar neighborhood. |
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Over the rolling plains of Edelwilde walk giants, dwarfs, elves, fairies and many other creatures unknown to the rest of the world. |
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The third voyage involves confrontations with a race of wicked dwarfs and a Cyclops-like giant who reminds us of Homer's Polyphemus. |
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Whereas some folks consider brown dwarfs the duds of the galaxy, astronomers see beauty in these substellar embers. |
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This process also stabilizes white dwarfs and neutron stars against gravitational collapse. |
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He didn't know what the aliens called themselves, but they were short and stocky of stature, much like the dwarfs of folklore. |
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Stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes will remain. |
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These sources have been attributed to white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. |
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In the early 1930s Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar showed that white dwarfs can have a maximum mass of 1.4 solar masses. |
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As these stars used up their fuel, they would eventually contract and cool as white dwarfs or explode as supernovae. |
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In our cultural tradition dwarfs belong to the mythic world, not the mundane world of our daily experience or reality. |
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Stars like our sun form white dwarfs, but those about 1.5 times heavier become supernovas and collapse to form a neutron star. |
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Yes, the drama is ultimately about us, but its reach and scope is so huge, so universal, it dwarfs us into silence. |
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He has photographed enough stellar nebula, white dwarfs and pinwheel galaxies to fill many a photo album. |
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It was hoped that this dark matter would be mostly in the form of small stars called red dwarfs. |
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In some respects, searching for planets around red dwarfs is harder than around heavier, hotter stars. |
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Dancing dwarfs and fire breathers part the converging crowds. |
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Like Montgomery County, Aldine, Texas dwarfs Union City in size, and its population is considerably more diverse. |
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Finally, as the sun was about to set, she came upon a little cottage that belonged to seven dwarfs. |
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Well, the dwarfs took pity on him and gave him the coffin, and the prince had it carried to his castle. |
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So he asked the dwarfs to sell him the coffin with the dead Little Snow White inside. |
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Could they be red giant stars, white dwarfs, or neutron stars? |
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Experts on very compact white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes study the enormously energetic and fascinatingly rich array of phenomena that these systems exhibit. |
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In Bwa culture certain socially marginal personages, such as foreigners, dwarfs, or lepers, are perceived to facilitate contact with the spirit world. |
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Some anthropologists have suggested that the hobbits could be modern-human dwarfs with a condition called microcephaly, a condition of abnormal smallness of the head. |
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When it turned night, the seven dwarfs returned home from their work and lit their seven little candles. |
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Renaissance potentates kept dwarfs, whom they dressed up, slobbered over, passed around at the dinner table, or presented as gifts to influential friends. |
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Giants, dwarfs and Erda are only hinted at in snatches of musical motif. |
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Here we see Alberich in his new incarnation as the heartless master of Nibelheim, mercilessly sweating his fellow dwarfs, the Nibelungs, in an immense gold factory. |
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Meager as it was, that 2-cent mechanical rate of 1914 proportionally dwarfs the 9.1 cents per physical copy paid today. |
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Her primary subject is conjoined twins, one of the most extreme examples, but she also brings into the story people with cleft lips, dwarfs, giants, and hermaphrodites. |
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The film is essentially a myth of power, love, and renunciation, expressed in a dramatic conflict fought out between gods, giants, humans, dwarfs, and other beings. |
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There is certainly room for a literal interpretation that portrays Wagner's gods, giants, dwarfs, and heroes as the Nordic myth and the libretto describe them. |
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It touches us in that part of of our minds where we fill the aching gap between us and the rest of nature with dwarfs and giants, elves and hobbits. |
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So the coolest, dimmest dwarfs represent the remnants of the oldest stars. |
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Some objects massive enough to burn deuterium may be brown dwarfs, while others may be planets, he notes. |
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These substances are usually found in molecular clouds, although they may also appear in low temperature stars, brown dwarfs and planets. |
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If correct, then the number of South African fungi dwarfs that of its plants. |
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Brown dwarfs start their lives like stars, as collapsing balls of gas, but they lack the mass to burn nuclear fuel and radiate starlight. |
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Physicists and astronomers, though, deal with WIMPs and MACHOs, giants and dwarfs, and bubble chambers. |
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This pair of early A dwarfs, first noted at Narrabri has now been resolved using the VINCI instrument and two of the VLTI siderostats. |
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And Rodriguez, at 6-feet tall with a 76-inch reach, dwarfs most middleweights. |
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The huge flower of stapelia gigantia dwarfs even its own faux-cactus foliage, a cluster of fat, green, upright stems. |
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One of the dwarfs remained at home every day to keep watch over her. |
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Brown dwarfs, however, unlike their true stellar kin, never manage to gain sufficient mass for nuclear fusion to commence and light their fires. |
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Previous record holders for coldest brown dwarfs, also found by WISE and Spitzer, were about room temperature. |
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Meanwhile, German folklore has tended to see the conflation of elves with dwarfs. |
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Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality. |
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In the late legendary sagas, dwarfs demonstrate skill in healing as well as in smithing. |
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These brown dwarfs are identified with their extreme red colors and cold temperatures. |
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Spectra of the galactic light indicate that faint red dwarfs account for 80 percent of stars in elliptical galaxies. |
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But scientists estimate it is probably a brown dwarf rather than a planet since brown dwarfs are known to be fairly common. |
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Antibodies to human thyreotropin in the serum of certain hypopituitary dwarfs. |
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Among the most intriguing of white dwarfs are the ones that pulsate, says Donald Winget, an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin. |
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The best guess is white dwarfs,'' said David Bennett, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories near Oakland, Calif. |
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The 40-foot, flower-covered armature dwarfs the visitors who mill around the museum entrance, as seen in the Art Print and on the Art Notes page. |
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Both Herbie and his wife, Gail, who survives him, were achondroplastic dwarfs, just over 4 feet tall. |
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Brown dwarfs are much bigger than planets but not quite big enough to generate the internal pressure needed to burst into starhood. |
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The dwarfs were also all fantastic in the roles, with a special mention to Grumbly, Snoozy and Sniffle. |
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However, after further evaluation, these Wrangel island mammoths are no longer considered to have been dwarfs. |
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Anatoly Liberman suggests that dwarfs may have originally been thought of as lesser supernatural beings, which became literal smallness after Christianization. |
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Having the males growing as dwarfs on the female is expected to increase the fertilization efficiency by minimizing the distance between male and female reproductive organs. |
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Given this background, how can dwarfs, beset by beautyism, heightism, and a succession of slights, move toward positive body images and self-esteem? |
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Planets orbiting white dwarfs offer the best hope of finding extraterrestrials because scientists can detect oxygen in their atmosphere fairly easily. |
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Dr Christiane Helling believes that the dust of precious stones in the atmosphere of gas giant planets and brown dwarfs could hold the key to the origin of life. |
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When the orbital period has shrunk to about 5 minutes, the least-massive of the two white dwarfs will fill its Roche lobe and start mass transfer to its companion. |
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The Prose Edda, however, describes dwarfs as beings similar to maggots that festered in the flesh of Ymir before being gifted with reason by the gods. |
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Brown dwarfs, first seen in 1995, occupy a murky ground between planets and full-fledged stars, lacking the mass needed to sustain hydrogen fusion in their cores. |
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However, Immler says, there's a mystery because many stars take several billion years to become white dwarfs and then explode as type la supernovas. |
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There were seven dwarfs in the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale Snow White. |
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Lotte Motz theorized that the Germanic dwarfs, particularly as smiths and gatekeepers, constituted a reminiscence of the Megalithic culture in Northern Europe. |
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