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Recent Examples of red giant
That appears to be what happened some 4000 light-years away, allowing a planet similar in mass and orbital position to slide twice as far from its star, surviving the star’s expansion into a red giant and subsequent contraction into a white dwarf.
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Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
The red giant and white dwarf have an explosive relationship.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
The hunter’s moon is expected to be joined by Jupiter, a red giant star called Aldebaran and the star cluster Pleiades, according to EarthSky.
—Gina Park and Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
Others are trying to use type II supernovae and different kinds of red giant stars to measure distances.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
The red giant and white dwarf have an explosive relationship.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
The hunter’s moon is expected to be joined by Jupiter, a red giant star called Aldebaran and the star cluster Pleiades, according to EarthSky.
—Gina Park and Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
Others are trying to use type II supernovae and different kinds of red giant stars to measure distances.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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Their proximity allows material to flow from the subgiant to the white dwarf.Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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That appears to be what happened some 4000 light-years away, allowing a planet similar in mass and orbital position to slide twice as far from its star, surviving the star’s expansion into a red giant and subsequent contraction into a white dwarf.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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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.Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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In mid-December 2024, scientists discovered a pair of binary stars designated D9 orbiting each other close to Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Scientists have never been able to detect the binary star system within the S-cluster -- until now.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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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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The collisions of compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars emit strong gravitational waves.Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
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The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Competitive intelligence tools track these variables in real time, keeping them ahead of rivals.Mohit Prateek, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Such variables make projections about AI's energy consumption and pollution profile tricky.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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That is the result of the unusual characteristics of their tiny and cool host red dwarf star, which can mimic atmospheric signals that are already weak and hard to detect.Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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However, red dwarf stars have starspots and eruptions that interfere with measurements.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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This region, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 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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“Red giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20giant. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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