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star A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked ...

s which are the least voluminous known (the smallest stars by volume).

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Notable small stars

This is a list of small stars that are notable for characteristics that are not separately listed.

Smallest stars by type

Timeline of smallest red dwarf star recordholders

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s are considered the smallest star known that are active fusion stars, and are the smallest stars possible that is not a

brown dwarf Brown dwarfs (also called failed stars) are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen ( 1H) into helium in their cores, unlike a main-sequence star. Instead, they have a mass between the most ...

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References

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