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Recent Examples of red star
Outside, after the mass, all the weeds in town were topped with red stars.
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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
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
More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2024
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
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
More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Roman will be looking at the motion of the universe in the visible range too, thanks to what are known as type 1a supernovas—exploding stars that are part of a binary star system.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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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
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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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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
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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
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In this arrangement, a white dwarf star usually pulls mass from a nearby companion star.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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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
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Additional Bearish Factors Multiple analysts took a broader approach, citing a range of variables as being behind bitcoin’s recent depreciation.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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But this year saw a freak variable that prompted DraftKings to adjust the lines.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
26 Feb. 2025
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Thankfully, there's another option: planets around red dwarf stars.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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The spectra also showed the red dwarf’s glow was mixed with blue light.—
ByDaniel Clery,
science.org,
4 Dec. 2024
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One is directly, by observing 'standard candles' — that is, objects with predictable luminosities such as Cepheid variables, type Ia supernova explosions, and red giant stars — in galaxies and determining how far away they are based on the apparent brightness of these standard candles.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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As the red giant sheds its outer layers, the white dwarf will pull the hydrogen waste to its own surface.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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