neutron star

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Recent Examples of neutron star 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 For example, the current model of airspace allocation, based on decades-old frameworks, contrasts sharply with the potential for drone corridors that could populate the skies with the density of a neutron star (OK, slight exaggeration). Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 Previously, skepticism surrounded the possibility of a radio burst escaping the intense environment of a magnetar, a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field. Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025 The event is driven by an earlier merger of two neutron stars; this creates an unstable intermediate neutron star, which is kept from collapsing immediately by its rapid spin. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for neutron star 
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Noun
  • The discovery, which relied on data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, according to a press release.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • During his memorial, his coffin was secured on the van and draped in the Syrian flag—not the one that hung from Assad’s palace but an earlier version, with three red stars, that had been revived as an emblem of the revolution.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • See the location of the Hollywood Sign marked by the red star in the image below.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • However, if the white dwarf progenitor star exists in a binary with another star, this stellar corpse can begin vampirically stripping material from its companion.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • If the circling object is indeed a white dwarf, the body would be pulling of a precarious balancing act, teetering on the black hole’s edge without falling in.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.
    Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Of course, trying to observe finicky birds in remote habitats full of uncontrollable variables may mean that this particular test would not be resolved anytime soon.
    Jason Bittel, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • For improving mental health, these variables seem to have surprisingly weak effects.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 9 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Three teams have identified a dozen or so brown dwarfs between three and eight Jupiter masses—and no smaller.
    ByAdam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 2024
  • As expected with these diminutive masses, brown dwarfs are rarely found in binaries.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024

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