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Recent Examples of red star
These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.
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Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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
The flag of North Korea features a red star within a white circle set against a wide red stripe, bordered by thinner white and blue stripes.
—Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
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Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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
The flag of North Korea features a red star within a white circle set against a wide red stripe, bordered by thinner white and blue stripes.
—Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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As the star's core rapidly crushes down to form a neutron star, the outer layers and most of the star's mass are blown away in a core-collapse supernova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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Hypervelocity stars are thought to be created when a binary star system gets too close to a supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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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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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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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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But further observations of this and other white dwarf stars would be needed to clarify the conundrum.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
9 Mar. 2025
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Type Ia supernova explosions spur the destruction of white dwarf stars that have accreted too much mass.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Avalanche terrain is a world of numerous variables, contradictions, and compounding human error.—
Ashley Thess,
Outdoor Life,
14 Mar. 2025
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Traditional retirement planning doesn’t account for all these variables.—
Ty Bernicke,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Barnard’s star is a red dwarf star, a low-mass, cool star that comprises about 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Every 78 to 80 years, the white dwarf in this binary system accumulates enough material from its companion red giant star to trigger a thermonuclear explosion.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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One is directly, by observing 'standard candles' — that is, objects with predictable luminosities such as Cepheid variables, type Ia supernova explosions, and red giant stars — in galaxies and determining how far away they are based on the apparent brightness of these standard candles.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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