It was much too small to be a normal star.
In 1992, radio astronomers reported the first strong evidence of such objects, but the two planets were not orbiting a normal star.
There was some indication that they might not be normal stars, however.
A normal magic star contains the consecutive integers 1 to 2n.
The smallest examples of normal magic stars are therefore 6-pointed.
Hubble found only two brown dwarfs as companions to normal stars.
Any normal stars of greater than minimal mass have gone off the main sequence long ago.
Closer than a ship could ever go to a normal star.
A normal star is supported by energy flowing outward from its core.
The planet, which we hadn't bothered to name, was a chunk of black rock without any normal star close enough to give it heat.