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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
The event is driven by an earlier merger of two neutron stars; this creates an unstable intermediate neutron star, which is kept from collapsing immediately by its rapid spin.
—Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
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, 22 Jan. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
The event is driven by an earlier merger of two neutron stars; this creates an unstable intermediate neutron star, which is kept from collapsing immediately by its rapid spin.
—Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
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, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutron star
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The unprecedented observations of such bright, long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning, astronomers say.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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Astronomers suggest that supermassive black holes create hypervelocity stars when binary stars (a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other) get too close.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Reports of earthquake felt away from source (red star) on February 14, 2025.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 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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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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Hamal is a giant star in our Milky Way galaxy that dwarfs our sun with a diameter of at least 13 million miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
16 Mar. 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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There’s obviously a lot of unknown variables this year, Marks said, with tariffs being at the forefront along with worries about an economic slowdown.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
19 Mar. 2025
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Specifically, your function has to be a polynomial — a combination of variables raised to whole-number exponents and multiplied by coefficients.—
Stephen Ornes,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Mar. 2025
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In fact, type Ia supernovas were integral to the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, the genesis of dark energy, back in 1998.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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That means that this dataset of nearby supernovas is several times larger than previous similar samples.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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This provides scientists with valuable data on how their formation compares to that of a star or brown dwarf, the term given to large gaseous planets that fail to develop into stars.—
Javier Carbajal,
WIRED,
25 Mar. 2025
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This binary rate drops to near zero for the smallest stars, so as stellar bodies with even smaller masses, there should be very little chance of finding brown dwarfs in binaries.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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