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Recent Examples of neutron star
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.
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Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
Scientists have long theorized neutron stars, ultradense core remnants left behind after massive stars explode, as origins of fast radio bursts.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
Astronomers hypothesize that the FRBs could be originating from two supernova remnants, called neutron stars, that are merging or collapsing onto themselves, Shah said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2025
One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
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Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
Scientists have long theorized neutron stars, ultradense core remnants left behind after massive stars explode, as origins of fast radio bursts.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun
Astronomers hypothesize that the FRBs could be originating from two supernova remnants, called neutron stars, that are merging or collapsing onto themselves, Shah said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Jan. 2025
One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutron star
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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
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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
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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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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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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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In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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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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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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In a new video, longtime Valve watcher Tyler McVicker goes into detail on a bevy of new variables and strings found after spending hours datamining the latest update to Dota 2 (the first update for that game since mid-December).—
Kevin Purdy,
Ars Technica,
26 Feb. 2025
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Additional Bearish Factors Multiple analysts took a broader approach, citing a range of variables as being behind bitcoin’s recent depreciation.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 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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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 contrast, stars, including brown dwarfs, form on their own within giant collapsing clouds of gas.—
ByAdam Mann,
science.org,
6 Nov. 2024
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The cool brown dwarf Gliese 229 B is a close binary European Southern Observatory.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
16 Oct. 2024
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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