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Recent Examples of red giant
In five billion years' time, our sun will turn into a white dwarf after its red giant phase.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
The white dwarf acts as a cosmic thief, pulling material from its red giant companion in a process called accretion.
—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
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
The white dwarf acts as a cosmic thief, pulling material from its red giant companion in a process called accretion.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2024
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The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 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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The unprecedented observations of such bright, long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning, astronomers say.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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Astronomers suggest that supermassive black holes create hypervelocity stars when binary stars (a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other) get too close.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 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 those findings have yet to be linked to a white dwarf, a neutron star, or another source.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Like all neutron stars, magnetars are formed when massive stars run out of their fuel for nuclear fusion.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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There’s obviously a lot of unknown variables this year, Marks said, with tariffs being at the forefront along with worries about an economic slowdown.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
19 Mar. 2025
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However, recent layoffs in federal agencies, which weren’t fully reflected in the latest employment report, add another variable to an already complex equation.—
Luis E. Romero,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Similar compact systems of small planets have been detected around many other red dwarf stars, which are the most common stars in the universe, says Rice University planetary scientist André Izidoro, who was not involved in the study.—
Tom Metcalfe,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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All of them appeared to originate from a faint red dwarf star.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
14 Mar. 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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“Red giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20giant. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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