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On the demotion of Pluto to the status of dwarf planet, Philip Zarka of the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France wondered how astrologers should respond:

* AM CVn, a very blue star of magnitude 14, is the prototype of a special class of cataclysmic variable stars, in which the companion star is a white dwarf, rather than a main sequence star.

BPM 37093 is a white dwarf star whose carbon atoms are thought to have formed a crystalline structure.

Radius – mass relations for a model white dwarf.

It contains several million stars, most of which are yellow dwarf stars, but also possesses red giants and blue-white stars ; the stars have an average age of 12 billion years.

* A blue compact dwarf galaxy

2MASS J044144 is a brown dwarf with a companion about 5 – 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

* Lygodactylus angolensis – Angola dwarf gecko

Two species of hamster belonging to the genus Phodopus, Campbell's dwarf hamster ( Phodopus campbelli ) and the Djungarian hamster ( Phodopus sungorus ), and two of the genus Cricetulus, the Chinese striped hamster ( Cricetulus barabensis ) and the Chinese hamster ( Cricetulus griseus ) have a dark stripe down their heads to their tails.

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | Fermi observations of dwarf galaxies provide new insights on dark matter.

Cheirogaleidae is the family of strepsirrhine primates that contains the various dwarf and mouse lemurs.

Both components are orange-hued dwarf ( main sequence ) stars ; the primary is of magnitude 5. 2 and the secondary is of magnitude 6. 1.

* Nemesis ( hypothetical star ), a proposed dwarf star or brown dwarf in Sun's extreme outer orbit

If the core of the star is not too massive ( less than approximately 1. 4 solar mass, taking into account mass loss that has occurred by this time ), it may then form a white dwarf ( possibly surrounded by a planetary nebula ) as described above for less massive stars, with the difference that the white dwarf is composed chiefly of oxygen, neon, and magnesium.

* Ceres ( dwarf planet ), smallest of the five identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid

It is not clear whether this companion object is a sub-brown dwarf or a planet.

The Antlia Dwarf, a 14. 8 < sup > m </ sup > dwarf spheroidal galaxy that belongs to our Local Group of galaxies.

He is an anti-social dwarf who engages in subtle practical joking in a deliberate attempt to cause social confusion.

Proxima, the tertiary star, is a red dwarf of magnitude 11. 0 ; it is almost 2 degrees away from the primary and secondary and has a period of approximately one million years.

Nearby examples of ( dwarf ) irregular galaxies include the Magellanic Clouds.

The word chaparral is a loan word from Spanish chaparro, meaning both " small " and " dwarf " evergreen oak, which itself comes from the Basque word txapar, with exactly the same meaning.

knowing that its ageless mass would always dwarf the short span of time allotted to any man.

In the German middle-age epic the Nibelungenlied, a dwarf named Alberich plays an important role.

However, one of the seven species of mussels found in the Neversink River, the dwarf wedgemussel, is on the federal list of endangered species.

Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.