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Recent Examples of red giant
The white dwarf acts as a cosmic thief, pulling material from its red giant companion in a process called accretion.
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Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
The team observed that the outer star is in the process of becoming a red giant, a phase occurring at the end of a star’s life.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
Our star will eventually become a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf billions of years from now.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.
—Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
The team observed that the outer star is in the process of becoming a red giant, a phase occurring at the end of a star’s life.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
Our star will eventually become a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf billions of years from now.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.
—Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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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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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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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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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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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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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.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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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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Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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The spectra also showed the red dwarf’s glow was mixed with blue light.—
ByDaniel Clery,
science.org,
4 Dec. 2024
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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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“Red giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20giant. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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