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The most violent of these deaths are associated with truly giant stars and are known as supernovas—explosions that sometimes outshine entire galaxies.
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Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
And then, critically, the giant star’s core runs out of helium fuel.
—Big Think, 7 Apr. 2025
Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
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Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
And then, critically, the giant star’s core runs out of helium fuel.
—Big Think, 7 Apr. 2025
Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
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Aldebaran, the red star that represents the 'right eye' of the bull, appears to be part of the cluster, but is actually located a mere 65 light-years from us.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Satellite map of the tsunami's leading edge (red), with the epicenter depicted by a red star.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
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This theoretical limit concerns how much matter can be accreted to a compact body like a neutron star or black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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Using artificial neutral networks, his tool allows astronomers to distinguish true binary star systems from chance alignments in massive data sets like the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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The double stars of Albireo are considered a binary star system, just over 400 light-years away, with just one light-year equaling nearly 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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After weeks, months and years of observations, astronomers will have a time-lapse record revealing anything that explodes, flashes or moves – such as supernovas, variable stars or asteroids.—
Samantha Thompson,
Space.com,
7 July 2025
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Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 June 2025
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Next up, the team hopes to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study the white dwarf and the exo-Pluto in infrared light.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Change one variable slightly in the defensive pattern, and Barnes can give you an entirely different solution.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Suffice it to say, a double-big look with Valanciunas is another variable that could make the Nuggets immensely watchable.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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Sometime between now and when the sun enters its Earth-devouring red giant phase, Major League Baseball will make an official announcement regarding its 2026-28 media rights contracts.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Antares is, in reality, a binary star system, made up of a red supergiant star with a white main sequence companion, though the light of the red giant dominates the naked-eye view from Earth.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant%20star. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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