How to Use red giant in a Sentence

red giant

noun

• The red giant star Aldebaran makes up one of the Bull’s eyes.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
• This gives the red giant a radius 750 times that of our sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Oct. 2020
• That’s why Freedman set out to use tip of the red giant branch stars.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2020
• As a red giant, the star was huge—10 times larger than Earth's sun.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Aug. 2019
• And what will happen to the planets once the sun enters the red giant phase?
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• Antares, a red giant star just to the lower right of Jupiter, is the brightest star in Scorpius and marks the heart of the beast.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 4 Aug. 2019
• The star-turn of Boötes is the red giant star Arcturus, one of the brightest stars that can be seen from Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• That cause the layers to expand and transform the star into a red giant.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 4 May 2023
• Around 1,000 years ago the central star ran out of fuel and swelled into a red giant.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• This causes the entire star to bloat out into what’s known as a red giant.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
• Astronomers have gotten their best look yet at the surface of a red giant star.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2018
• At that time, the sun will expand into a red giant star, subsuming the Earth in a fiery blaze.
  — Madeleine Stone, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
• Orion’s brightest stars are Rigel, marking one of the hunter’s knees, and the red giant star Betelgeuse at his armpit.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2019
• The Aldebaran, a red giant star that depicts the bull's eye, is Taurus's brightest star.
  — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 26 Mar. 2020
• That eye is really the red giant star Aldebaran, which sits 67 light-years from Earth.
  — National Geographic, 1 Nov. 2016
• Eventually, the helium in a red giant's core will be spent, and the core will shrink again.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
• So these stars take on an orange-red appearance, hence the red giant moniker.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022
• Nor are Jupiter and the other outer planets likely to be at risk when the Sun puffs out into a red giant.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 May 2023
• U Cam is a red giant, a star that was once like the Sun but has gone much further along its evolutionary path.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2012
• Instead, her team looked toward old, swollen stars called red giants.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
• Sitting at 66 light-years away from Earth, this red giant star represents the eye of the mythical bull.
  — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
• In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• This is the eventual fate of the sun, and Mercury, Venus, and Earth (and maybe even Mars) will be shredded as the sun expands into this red giant phase.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2019
• They are thought to form when red giant or red supergiant star collides with a neutron star.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
• Mercury, Venus and most likely even Earth will be engulfed by the Sun’s expansion as a red giant.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• But the latest study is relying on a different kind of stars called red giants.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 July 2019
• Also, that big red giant looks a lot like the unexplained mountain in the Indian ocean.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Nov. 2021
• The eight-million-year-old red giant is on the brink of star death, also known as going supernova.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• More recently, astronomers classified Betelgeuse as a red giant, a star that is near the end of its life.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• However, as Stern points out, there are around 1 billion red giant stars in the Milky Way galaxy today.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024