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The hunter’s moon is expected to be joined by Jupiter, a red giant star called Aldebaran and the star cluster Pleiades, according to EarthSky.
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Gina Park and Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
Others are trying to use type II supernovae and different kinds of red giant stars to measure distances.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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
Other stars at more advanced stages of their life cycles could eat the Sun for breakfast, spit it back up, and eat it again – which is basically what one red giant has been seen doing now.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2024
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Gina Park and Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
Others are trying to use type II supernovae and different kinds of red giant stars to measure distances.
—Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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
Other stars at more advanced stages of their life cycles could eat the Sun for breakfast, spit it back up, and eat it again – which is basically what one red giant has been seen doing now.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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Scientists are hoping to study the nova to discover what happens when the material is blasted from the white dwarf and distributed into neighboring galaxies, Boyd said.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Such white dwarf stars are the hot, glowing stellar cores left behind when dying sunlike stars blow off their outer layers.Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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The flag of North Korea features a red star within a white circle set against a wide red stripe, bordered by thinner white and blue stripes.Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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The group calculated that approximately one in three gravitational waves of the right sort (neutron star collisions work best since their mergers last longer than black hole mergers) would make the bar ring with one quantum unit of energy.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star, much denser neutron star, or another black hole.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
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Do not conscript them into your game of high-speed moving variables.James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 2020 election showed that there were aspects of Trump’s support that could not be fully accounted for with the demographic variables that pollsters had come to rely on.Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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This galactic speed demon appears to have a red dwarf star smaller and dimmer than our sun.Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024
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The smallest red dwarfs, with masses barely bigger than a tenth of the mass of the Sun, can burn for trillions of years.Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024
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Stars that change in brightness, known as variable stars, get brighter and dimmer; supernovas burst into view and then gradually fade away; and thousands of objects too faint to see with the unaided eye, like asteroids, move steadily across the sky.Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2024
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Using these variable stars, scientists can measure the distances to galaxies up to about 100 million light-years from us.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
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“Red giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20giant. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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