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Recent Examples of red star
See the location of the Hollywood Sign marked by the red star in the image below.
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.
—Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.
—Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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As the star's core rapidly crushes down to form a neutron star, the outer layers and most of the star's mass are blown away in a core-collapse supernova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 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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The binary star system sits roughly 150 light-years from Earth.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 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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Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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And then, critically, the giant star’s core runs out of helium fuel.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Apr. 2025
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The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2024
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Importantly, the two groups, only a few weeks apart in age, were not expected to differ significantly from one another, which would reduce the probability of confounding variables.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Apr. 2025
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The start and end of that season changes based on a wide set of variables, but the presence of Velella velellas indicates a shift in winds and currents, Stock said.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Pinilla added that, thanks to the incredible capabilities of ALMA, astronomers are finally able to characterize the small and faint disks around red dwarf stars that are only 10% to 50% the mass of our sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Similar compact systems of small planets have been detected around many other red dwarf stars, which are the most common stars in the universe, says Rice University planetary scientist André Izidoro, who was not involved in the study.—
Tom Metcalfe,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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