giant star

Definition of giant star

: a star of great luminosity and of large mass

Examples of giant star in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Sagittarius is spotted with colorful gas clouds or giant star factories, such as the Lagoon Nebula. — National Geographic, "Is the robot future now?," 19 Aug. 2020 The black hole sucks matter from the giant star, forming a swirling accretion disk that drains into the black hole. — Popular Science, "These two celestial bodies share a heartbeat, puzzling scientists," 24 Aug. 2020 According to the release, the black hole is a part of a system that includes a giant star 30 times the mass of the sun. — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, "Scientists Find Mysterious ‘Heartbeat’ in Galactic Gas Cloud — and Twitter Jokes ‘Galactus Is Coming!’," 18 Aug. 2020 But the tiniest cover is still set into motion by a giant star. — Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, "How Charlize Theron shot her own EW digital cover for The Old Guard," 8 July 2020 Below it, a single giant star 200,000 times brighter than the sun has blown its own blue bubble of gas. — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, "Hubble Marks 30 Years of Seeing a Universe Being Born and Dying," 24 Apr. 2020 The global lockdown has created a huge fall in demand, but the more systemic giant staring down on us is debt. — The Economist, "The world after covid-19 Guy Standing on how lockdowns make the case for a basic income," 20 May 2020 Even farther out, there's a torus of material that's still expanding away from the stars, possibly first ejected when the envelope of the giant star first engulfed its companion. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Images obtained of two stars in the process of a merger," 5 Feb. 2020 The incredibly violent explosion, which occurs when a giant star has finally run out of the fuel that fires its fusion reaction, briefly outshines all the rest of the stars in that galaxy put together. — NBC News, "Astronomers want to see a supernova. A dimming star is giving them hope.," 5 Feb. 2020

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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/giant%20star. Accessed 25 Nov. 2020.

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