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Recent Examples of red star
More specifically, the radiant is north of Betelgeuse, the bright, red star that represents Orion’s right shoulder.
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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
Its red star, displayed on the front of the house, is reserved for homes built in the 18th century.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
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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
Its red star, displayed on the front of the house, is reserved for homes built in the 18th century.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
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The collisions of compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and neutron stars emit strong gravitational waves.Gaurav Khanna, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2024
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The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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In mid-December 2024, scientists discovered a pair of binary stars designated D9 orbiting each other close to Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Scientists have never been able to detect the binary star system within the S-cluster -- until now.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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This region, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 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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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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Their proximity allows material to flow from the subgiant to the white dwarf.Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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That appears to be what happened some 4000 light-years away, allowing a planet similar in mass and orbital position to slide twice as far from its star, surviving the star’s expansion into a red giant and subsequent contraction into a white dwarf.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Competitive intelligence tools track these variables in real time, keeping them ahead of rivals.Mohit Prateek, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Such variables make projections about AI's energy consumption and pollution profile tricky.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 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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However, red dwarf stars have starspots and eruptions that interfere with measurements.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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In the evening, red giant flying squirrels emerged from their tree holes before sailing from trunk to trunk in the twilight.Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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However, by then, the sun will have exhausted its hydrogen fuel and be expanding into a red giant star, either consuming Earth or boiling away its oceans.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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