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Its red star, displayed on the front of the house, is reserved for homes built in the 18th century.
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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
District of Columbia state flag The flag of Washington D.C. is based on the Washington family's coat of arms, which has three red stars and two red stripes against a white background.
—Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
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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
District of Columbia state flag The flag of Washington D.C. is based on the Washington family's coat of arms, which has three red stars and two red stripes against a white background.
—Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 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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There are even proposals to use gravitational-wave signals from merging black holes and neutron stars.Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 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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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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Astronomers are also beginning to turn to a new distance indicator: carbon-rich giant stars that belong to what’s called the J-region asymptotic giant branch (JAGB).Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 8 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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During a nova event, explains NASA, energy explodes from a white dwarf star.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2024
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Finally, The Chicago Fed’s National Activity Index (NAI), a comprehensive index composed of 85 national variables, showed up as -0.28 in September, negative now for four months in a row.Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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Any variable would have led to very different results.Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
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Too Hot For Life 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, 1 Oct. 2024
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Orbiting a red dwarf star, which typically has a longer lifespan than larger stars like our Sun, Kepler-186f might benefit from stable conditions for billions of years, giving life more time to potentially develop.Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 31 July 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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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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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