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Looming ominously in the sky is an enormous red star, prone to fiery outbursts and appearing several times bigger than the Sun.
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
Its red star, displayed on the front of the house, is reserved for homes built in the 18th century.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
The larger but cooler red star feeds material to the smaller, hotter white dwarf and this transfer of energy builds up.
—Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
The spatula has bright yellow ears of corn interspersed with tiny red stars.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
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Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
Its red star, displayed on the front of the house, is reserved for homes built in the 18th century.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
The larger but cooler red star feeds material to the smaller, hotter white dwarf and this transfer of energy builds up.
—Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
The spatula has bright yellow ears of corn interspersed with tiny red stars.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 July 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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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 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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This galactic speed demon appears to have a red dwarf star smaller and dimmer than our sun.Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024
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The smallest red dwarfs, with masses barely bigger than a tenth of the mass of the Sun, can burn for trillions of years.Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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