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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.
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Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
While the outer layers of a star explode outward, the innermost layers plunge inward, funneling a fraction of the star’s mass into the black hole (or neutron star if the star’s mass is too small).
—ArsTechnica, 1 Apr. 2026
When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
This is the first time that a binary neutron star merger has been linked to such an environment.
—Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
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Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
While the outer layers of a star explode outward, the innermost layers plunge inward, funneling a fraction of the star’s mass into the black hole (or neutron star if the star’s mass is too small).
—ArsTechnica, 1 Apr. 2026
When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
This is the first time that a binary neutron star merger has been linked to such an environment.
—Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
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Then in the future, when the binary star component enters the red giant phase, long after the outer star has become a compact white dwarf, the mass transfer could begin again in the opposite direction, with matter falling onto the surface of the white dwarf.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 June 2026
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Granted, this series has moving parts beyond its binary stars.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
18 Apr. 2026
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The lunar disk will appear to draw closer to the red light of Antares as the pair track a low arc over the southern horizon, before finally setting at sunrise on May 31, with the red star having transitioned to the top of the silver moon.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
29 May 2026
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But with patience and a spirit of exploration, each step reveals a surprise: tiny red stars, minute purple pinpoints, a wash of pink-white across a creek.—
Alissa Greenberg,
Mercury News,
13 Apr. 2026
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For really distant stars, Cepheid variable stars are used.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
24 May 2026
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Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.—
Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 2026
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The shedding creates a region of dust and gas around the star’s core — a white dwarf.—
Avni Trivedi,
CNN Money,
8 June 2026
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This would trigger explosive outbursts on the white dwarf, which would be seen across the galaxy as a nova eruption.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 June 2026
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As a result, the exploit can decrement the variable an arbitrary number of times and then delete and free the chain when some objects still point to it.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
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The other variable is the war in Iran.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
8 June 2026
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Much to the delight of comfort-minded dressers everywhere, loose, retro activewear has gone supernova this year.—
Kelsey Stewart,
Glamour,
6 June 2026
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The models specifically reproduced how said particles would interact with the expanding shell of material shrugged off by the supernova's dying progenitor star.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 May 2026
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These small stars also burn cooler and slower than our Sun (let alone a giant star), which means that intelligent, technology-using life has more time to potentially evolve and start sending out radio messages.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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However, in the nearby Andromeda galaxy, a giant star seems to have taken a very different path.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Feb. 2026
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Once orbiting each other, the brown dwarfs would have gradually spiraled closer and closer together, with the gravitational influence of one brown dwarf causing its counterpart to puff out and become less dense.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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What’s left is likely to be a large gas giant, possibly somewhere between Jupiter and a brown dwarf star in mass.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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