Examples of red giant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The process begins with a binary system, in which one of the two stars turns into a red giant, leaving just a white dwarf remnant core still in orbit with the other star in the system. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022 So these stars take on an orange-red appearance, hence the red giant moniker. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022 Eventually, the helium in a red giant's core will be spent, and the core will shrink again. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2022 When that happens, the Sun will become a red giant. — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Jan. 2022 Also, that big red giant looks a lot like the unexplained mountain in the Indian ocean. — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Nov. 2021 In roughly 5 billion years, our sun is expected to become a red giant and later a white dwarf. — NBC News, 1 July 2021 This aligns with prior Hubble observations of DF4, which used the tip of the red giant branch to determine a distance of 65 million light-years (±5 million light-years) for that galaxy. — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 22 June 2021 As its core contracts, its outer layers will expand, passing into what is referred to as the red giant phase. — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021 See More

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