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Recent Examples of red star
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.
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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
So two blue stars close together might be resolvable in a telescope, while two red stars at the same separation won’t be.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2024
Looming ominously in the sky is an enormous red star, prone to fiery outbursts and appearing several times bigger than the Sun.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
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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
So two blue stars close together might be resolvable in a telescope, while two red stars at the same separation won’t be.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2024
Looming ominously in the sky is an enormous red star, prone to fiery outbursts and appearing several times bigger than the Sun.
—Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 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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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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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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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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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 addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the stellar corpse of the bygone star known as a white dwarf, which is seen as the tiny white dot within the nebula, is indeed located at its center.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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The white dwarf could be shedding matter and triggering the pulses observed by the researchers.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Jan. 2025
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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 potential problem here is that red dwarfs spend a long time dimming during their early phases, which means planets in their habitable zone may have originally been too close to the star and, therefore, too hot.—
Conor Feehly,
Discover Magazine,
9 Oct. 2024
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That is the result of the unusual characteristics of their tiny and cool host red dwarf star, which can mimic atmospheric signals that are already weak and hard to detect.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2024
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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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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