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What is a red dwarf?

What is a red dwarf? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (astronomy) A small, relatively cool star of the main sequence; most stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs.
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The time required for the evolution of a star from red giant to red dwarf is not known, but it must be very great.
It is also the first disk imaged around an M-type red dwarf, the most common type of star in the stellar neighborhood around the Sun.
The newfound planet's host star is a red dwarf with about one-fifth the mass of our sun.
The stellar wind from the red dwarf star removes the dust in the debris disk by causing the dust to slowly spiral into the star.
The new planet was detected orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 876, which is about one third as massive as our Sun.
So many estate agents have boated me around Venice, for instance, that I reckon I now know the Serenissima's darkest alleys better than the little red dwarf in Don't Look Now.

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