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Recent Examples of giant star
Pathways are lined with cutouts in the shape of African giant star grass, which migrated with enslaved Africans and took root alongside them.
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Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
And in the case of giant stars, what happens is their outer parts eventually get kind of pushed into outer space.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
Possible sources of black hole growth in the early universe include the collapse of primordial clouds, remnants of early giant stars and the merging of stars and black holes, per the study.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
In the Milky Way galaxy, these giant stars are particularly challenging for astronomers to observe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
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Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
And in the case of giant stars, what happens is their outer parts eventually get kind of pushed into outer space.
—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 21 May 2024
Possible sources of black hole growth in the early universe include the collapse of primordial clouds, remnants of early giant stars and the merging of stars and black holes, per the study.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
In the Milky Way galaxy, these giant stars are particularly challenging for astronomers to observe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
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See the location of the Hollywood Sign marked by the red star in the image below.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
9 Jan. 2025
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These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.—
Lisa Kaltenegger,
WIRED,
5 Dec. 2024
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One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun Astronomers hypothesize that the FRBs could be originating from two supernova remnants, called neutron stars, that are merging or collapsing onto themselves, Shah said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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New York has no issue in that regard — second in offensive rating, third in shooting percentage and a binary star averaging more than 50 points per game.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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However, the existence of a white dwarf is not sufficient for a Type la supernova; the white draft must also be part of a binary star system, in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
15 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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As one of the largest, most luminous stars in our Milky Way Galaxy, the variable star VY Canis Majoris is a likely candidates for the next naked-eye core-collapse supernova, said Guinan.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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The most famous of these are Type Ia supernovas, in which the white dwarf is obliterated in a runaway thermonuclear explosion after stolen stellar material piles up on its surface (though there are rare events called Type Iax supernovas, in which the white dwarf lives on as a wrecked zombie star).—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Dec. 2024
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away from Earth, the Blaze Star is a binary system in which a white dwarf, the core remains of a dying star, accumulates material from its neighboring red giant star.—
Alexa Robles-Gil,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Oct. 2024
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Holidays Holidays are another variable to consider.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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Stevenson explained the 20th century French literary travel philosophy of psychogeography posited that travelling on the same path twice never leads to the same experience because other variables are ever changing.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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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
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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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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant%20star. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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