How to Use giant star in a Sentence

giant star

noun

• Each stage in a giant star’s life is shorter than the last.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
• About 34 light-years from the Sun, Pollux is the closest giant star to our Sun.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
• The blue-white giant star marks the heart of Leo, the lion, the mythical king of the cosmic jungle.
  — National Geographic, 4 July 2016
• According to the release, the black hole is a part of a system that includes a giant star 30 times the mass of the sun.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• The two stars are close enough that the white dwarf orbits inside the giant star's gaseous outer layers.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
• El Paso is lit by a giant star made of nearly 500 bulbs, shining on the south side of the Franklin Mountains.
  — Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Which, again, is inconsistent with the fact that the giant star at the center of the η Carinae system is still there.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2018
• Neutron stars are formed when a giant star between about eight and 20 times the mass of our sun exhausts its fuel at the end of its life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2021
• The black hole sucks matter from the giant star, forming a swirling accretion disk that drains into the black hole.
  — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
• In 1987, a giant star exploded right next to our own Milky Way galaxy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2021
• Arcturus is a giant star in the constellation of Boötes, the Herdsman, which looks to me more like a kite than a person.
  — Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• The event will begin with what's called the partial stage, when the moon has not yet fully covered the sun, giving the giant star a crescent shape.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
• During the moment of silence, the giant star players skate through was lit purple and gold.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2020
• Pollux is a cool and bloated orange-colored star, said to be the closest giant star to Earth.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
• Regulus is a blue giant star many times larger than our own sun that is about 77 light-years from Earth.
  — Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
• But the tiniest cover is still set into motion by a giant star.
  — Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 8 July 2020
• In the second pic, Lil Nas X drapes his arms around the man for a mirror selfie, though his face is covered with a giant star emoji.
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2022
• Neutron stars, among the most exotic objects in the universe, form from the cores of giant stars that have exploded.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
• When a giant star exhausts its fuel, the star’s mass flows inward and its core collapses.
  — quantamagazine.org, 27 Jan. 2021
• Behind her, a giant star is lit on fire, while cowboys circle her on horseback.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Dec. 2020
• The global lockdown has created a huge fall in demand, but the more systemic giant staring down on us is debt.
  — The Economist, 20 May 2020
• The team has a hunch that a large object, orbiting the giant star, obscured our view of it briefly — but the nature of the occulting object is uncertain.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
• This giant star, which marks the eye of the mythical Taurus, the bull constellation, appears less than three degrees from Venus.
  — National Geographic, 1 July 2017
• Mars and Arcturus are both about the same brightness right now, and also both very close to the same color -- Arcturus is a bright orange giant star, much like the Sun will be in a few billion years.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2012
• For one, some of the material from the giant star has been captured in a disk that slowly orbits both of the stars at a distance of around 150 times that of the typical Earth-Sun distance.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2020
• Then after a couple of hundred million years, our Sun will swell back up and finish its life as a giant star some two to three hundred times its current size.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• Arcturus is a bloated orange super giant star more than 25 times the diameter of our sun.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
• Astronomers capture 'very violent' death of a giant star.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• This work led to the first sophisticated 2-D model of a giant star in extremis — and this time, the model star exploded.
  — Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
• But because these objects are too stable to explode on their own, a companion star—be it another white dwarf, a star like our sun or even a giant star—must push them over the edge.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 9 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024