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Recent Examples of red giant
Webb’s data revealed an object, named NIR-1, which could be a massive star or a red giant — a sun-like star at the end of its life that has brightened significantly.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The most obvious shape is Orion’s Belt — three stars (Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka) in a straight line —with red giant Betelgeuse roughly between the belt stars and Jupiter.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Antares, a red giant star, is the brightest star in Scorpius and marks the heart of the beast.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Right now, the data is compatible with both white dwarfs and red giants as the setting of the i-process.
—Jenna Ahart, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2025
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Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The most obvious shape is Orion’s Belt — three stars (Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka) in a straight line —with red giant Betelgeuse roughly between the belt stars and Jupiter.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Antares, a red giant star, is the brightest star in Scorpius and marks the heart of the beast.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 3 Aug. 2025
Right now, the data is compatible with both white dwarfs and red giants as the setting of the i-process.
—Jenna Ahart, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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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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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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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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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
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All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 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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Adelman’s vision for Murray’s substitution pattern will be another variable.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
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Here, hot weather is the confounding variable leading to both outcomes.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
23 Sep. 2025
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The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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This proximity to a red dwarf is problematic, however, as these pipsqueak stars can punch well above their weight by regularly unleashing violent stellar outbursts.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
8 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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“Red giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20giant. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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