How to Use red giant in a Sentence

red giant

noun

• The red giant star Aldebaran makes up one of the Bull’s eyes.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
• This gives the red giant a radius 750 times that of our sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
• That’s why Freedman set out to use tip of the red giant branch stars.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
• As a red giant, the star was huge—10 times larger than Earth's sun.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Aug. 2019
• And what will happen to the planets once the sun enters the red giant phase?
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• Hydrogen from the red giant is drawn to the surface of the white dwarf because of the pull.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• Antares, a red giant star just to the lower right of Jupiter, is the brightest star in Scorpius and marks the heart of the beast.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2019
• The star-turn of Boötes is the red giant star Arcturus, one of the brightest stars that can be seen from Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• That cause the layers to expand and transform the star into a red giant.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 4 May 2023
• Two stars, a red giant star and a white dwarf, orbit each other.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
• Around 1,000 years ago the central star ran out of fuel and swelled into a red giant.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• This causes the entire star to bloat out into what’s known as a red giant.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
• Astronomers have gotten their best look yet at the surface of a red giant star.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
• At that time, the sun will expand into a red giant star, subsuming the Earth in a fiery blaze.
  — Madeleine Stone, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
• As the two orbit each other, the intense gravity of the white dwarf pulls gas off the red giant star.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
• The red giant Betelgeuse, one of Orion’s brightest stars, shines above us, reigning in the sky at this time of year.
  — Yulia Denisyuk, Outside Online, 23 May 2024
• Orion’s brightest stars are Rigel, marking one of the hunter’s knees, and the red giant star Betelgeuse at his armpit.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2019
• The Aldebaran, a red giant star that depicts the bull's eye, is Taurus's brightest star.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 26 Mar. 2020
• That eye is really the red giant star Aldebaran, which sits 67 light-years from Earth.
  — National Geographic, 1 Nov. 2016
• Eventually, the helium in a red giant's core will be spent, and the core will shrink again.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
• So these stars take on an orange-red appearance, hence the red giant moniker.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
• Nor are Jupiter and the other outer planets likely to be at risk when the Sun puffs out into a red giant.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
• U Cam is a red giant, a star that was once like the Sun but has gone much further along its evolutionary path.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2012
• Instead, her team looked toward old, swollen stars called red giants.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
• Chicago South Side native Mari Zavala raised her eyes at the shining red giant that spits out packets of ketchup with a slam of your hand.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• Sitting at 66 light-years away from Earth, this red giant star represents the eye of the mythical bull.
  — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
• In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• This is the eventual fate of the sun, and Mercury, Venus, and Earth (and maybe even Mars) will be shredded as the sun expands into this red giant phase.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
• They are thought to form when red giant or red supergiant star collides with a neutron star.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
• The images show the surface of the star R. Doradus, a red giant star 180 light-years away in the Dorado constellation.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024