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As the two orbit each other, the intense gravity of the white dwarf pulls gas off the red giant star.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
One is a red giant—a big, luminous star in the process of dying—that’s over 400 times larger than the sun.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.
—Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
One is a red giant—a big, luminous star in the process of dying—that’s over 400 times larger than the sun.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.
—Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Indeed, most white dwarfs are seen to have extremely pure atmospheres of just those two lighter elements.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2025
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Sporadic radio pulses from a white dwarf binary at the orbital period Max Planck Institute.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Steinhardt, however, has an alternate hypothesis: Some post-starburst galaxies may be, unbeknownst to us, slowly forming small, red stars over time.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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According to Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a supergiant red star that’s located in the constellation named Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
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Astronomers have theorized that supernovas such as these are caused by two white dwarfs orbiting each other in a binary star system, when one of them consumes the other.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the finale at the end of a giant star’s life.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The gravitational pull of the star's remains would have been strong enough to crush together protons and electrons to form neutrons, meaning a neutron star is mostly made of neutrons.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
22 May 2025
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Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 May 2025
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There are a lot of variables that go into the mix between the physical maturity, the offensive tools, the character and the body of work can comprise over 100 games at varying levels of competition with different levels of stakes.—
Corey Pronman,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Another determinative variable would be how quickly rival countries will seize the opportunity to attract disillusioned investors with favorable tax regimes and strategic incentives.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Discovered in 1916 by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnard’s Star is a small and slow-burning red dwarf classified by astronomers as an M-type star.—
Tom Metcalfe,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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Multiple kinds of observations from a variety of instruments led groups to a rare phenomenon: a white dwarf tightly orbiting a red dwarf every 125 minutes.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Red giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20giant. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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