fixed star

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Noun
  • With their extremely strong magnetic fields, these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
  • That has led to a focus on compact objects, like neutron stars and black holes—especially a class of neutron stars called magnetars—as likely sources.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Reports of earthquake felt away from source (red star) on February 14, 2025.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • During his memorial, his coffin was secured on the van and draped in the Syrian flag—not the one that hung from Assad’s palace but an earlier version, with three red stars, that had been revived as an emblem of the revolution.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Roman will be looking at the motion of the universe in the visible range too, thanks to what are known as type 1a supernovas—exploding stars that are part of a binary star system.
    Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.
    Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • However, if the white dwarf progenitor star exists in a binary with another star, this stellar corpse can begin vampirically stripping material from its companion.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, trying to observe finicky birds in remote habitats full of uncontrollable variables may mean that this particular test would not be resolved anytime soon.
    Jason Bittel, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • For improving mental health, these variables seem to have surprisingly weak effects.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2025
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“Fixed star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixed%20star. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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