neutron star

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Recent Examples of neutron star Located 17,000 light-years away, a very special nebula, carved by a young, pulsing, rapidly spinning neutron star, looks like an enormous cosmic hand, reaching out through the void. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Aug. 2025 Meanwhile, an iron-core collapse supernova happens after a star more than 10 times our sun’s mass finally depletes all its fuel and subsequently collapses into a neutron star or black hole. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025 This triangulation was essential for the follow-up of the first detection of a binary neutron star merger. Lieke Van Son, Scientific American, 24 July 2025 The r-process probably occurs when two neutron stars collide. Jenna Ahart, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for neutron star
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Noun
  • 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
  • Detecting and analyzing these oddities can help Bédard, Sahu, and other researchers gain a more comprehensive understanding of the ultimate fate of many binary star systems.
    Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Blue and red stars shine brightly, while nearby blue spiral galaxies and distant red galaxy groups can also be seen.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Instead, these stars leave behind a white dwarf.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • What’s left behind is a massive white dwarf with a hydrogen-helium layer that’s 10 billion times thinner than usual, allowing detectable carbon to reach the surface.
    Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The other type of star that goes supernova is a giant star with a mass at least eight times greater than the sun.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Computations weren't merely limited to simple figures, though; the Cat also allowed users to store the result of a computation to a variable and reference that variable in other computations.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That definitely plays a little bit of a variable into it.
    Joe Smith, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Lynx play with unshakable swagger and intense focus, from supernova Collier to sharpshooting Kayla McBride to the tenacious Stud Budz.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Sure, other fates are possible, like direct collapse to a black hole or explosions through the pair-instability mechanism, but a core-collapse supernova (also known as a type II supernova) represents the fate of the majority of the most massive stars ever to be born.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And bumps in the early light curve of a supernova could indicate the presence of a close companion – a nearby star, brown dwarf or giant planet – that has become caught up in the conflagration.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The first brown dwarfs were only found in the 1990s.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2025

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