Astronomers' surprise at discovery of new stars

"Nearby isolated white dwarfs are usually easy to find, but we couldn't see these four stars directly in visible wavelengths because their red dwarf companions were drowning out their light."

— Dr Mairi O'Brien , Academic

"What's fascinating is that G 203-47 shouldn't be rotating this slowly if it formed the same way as similar systems."

— Dr David Wilson , Academic

"If we put more targeted effort into observing red dwarfs, perhaps we will find more surprises like this."

— Prof Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay , Academic