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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,
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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
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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
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See the location of the Hollywood Sign marked by the red star in the image below.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
9 Jan. 2025
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The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, according to a press release.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
18 Dec. 2024
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New York has no issue in that regard — second in offensive rating, third in shooting percentage and a binary star averaging more than 50 points per game.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 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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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
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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
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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
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If the circling object is indeed a white dwarf, the body would be pulling of a precarious balancing act, teetering on the black hole’s edge without falling in.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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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
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For improving mental health, these variables seem to have surprisingly weak effects.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
9 Feb. 2025
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