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Recent Examples of giant star
And in the case of giant stars, what happens is their outer parts eventually get kind of pushed into outer space.
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Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
Possible sources of black hole growth in the early universe include the collapse of primordial clouds, remnants of early giant stars and the merging of stars and black holes, per the study.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
In the Milky Way galaxy, these giant stars are particularly challenging for astronomers to observe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
But when aging, giant stars run out of fuel, their own gravity overwhelms fusion’s outward push.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
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Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
Possible sources of black hole growth in the early universe include the collapse of primordial clouds, remnants of early giant stars and the merging of stars and black holes, per the study.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
In the Milky Way galaxy, these giant stars are particularly challenging for astronomers to observe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
But when aging, giant stars run out of fuel, their own gravity overwhelms fusion’s outward push.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
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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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More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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The group calculated that approximately one in three gravitational waves of the right sort (neutron star collisions work best since their mergers last longer than black hole mergers) would make the bar ring with one quantum unit of energy.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star, much denser neutron star, or another black hole.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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Using these variable stars, scientists can measure the distances to galaxies up to about 100 million light-years from us.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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Scientists are hoping to study the nova to discover what happens when the material is blasted from the white dwarf and distributed into neighboring galaxies, Boyd said.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Such white dwarf stars are the hot, glowing stellar cores left behind when dying sunlike stars blow off their outer layers.Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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Do not conscript them into your game of high-speed moving variables.James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 2020 election showed that there were aspects of Trump’s support that could not be fully accounted for with the demographic variables that pollsters had come to rely on.Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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Scientists predict that in roughly 6 billion years, the Sun will run out of hydrogen and begin to die, transforming into a red giant.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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The nova, also referred to as a thermonuclear explosion, occurs when enough material from the red giant builds up in the white dwarf to power a bright outburst.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
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