9 In 1992 there were two failed attempts to make a US version of Red
Dwarf. Jane Leeves from Frasier played Holly.
The
dwarf has a half-light radius of 613 light years and an estimated stellar mass of about 250,000 solar masses.
In dramatic contrast, the brown
dwarf of the J1433 system was born a true, full-fledged, nuclear-fusing star, but has been stripped down to its current puny, substellar mass as the result of billions of years of cannibalism on the part of its companion white
dwarf.
It's too early to draw strong conclusions from a single oxygen-laden white
dwarf. "There are lots of open questions before we can say that this changes our view of white
dwarf evolution," Dufour says.
"The '
dwarfs' were children in masks miming to recordings.
One of the most famous dwarves in ancient Egypt was, Seneb, a 4th or early 5th Dynasty
dwarf who was chief of the royal wardrobe and priest of the funerary cults of Khufu.
1 Behind the big white bushy beard of venerable old
dwarf Balin is an actor best known for playing Scottish detective John Rebus.
The last category is "the ungrateful, evil
dwarf, allied with the Devil" (11).
But despite its dwarflessness, the book lets slip a piece of information about
dwarfs of which I had been unaware: the average height of a fully-grown male
dwarf is 132cm (4ft 4in), while females average 123cm (4ft 0.5in).
"Once they discovered that there was a class of stars really big, called giants, they carved the universe up into
dwarfs and giants," says Jim Holberg, a scientist who studies
dwarf stars at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
THE Red
Dwarf crew will come back to Earth when the show returns this Easter, 21 years since the science fiction series first blasted off.