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Recent Examples of red star
The campaign, which is slated to run locally, nationally and internationally, incorporates the red stars and colors of the Chicago flag, and features scenes of people making doughnuts, running by the lakefront and partying en masse at a live concert.
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
According to Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a supergiant red star that’s located in the constellation named Scutum.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2025
Steinhardt, however, has an alternate hypothesis: Some post-starburst galaxies may be, unbeknownst to us, slowly forming small, red stars over time.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
The tricolor has horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, with three red stars down the center stripe, which in the 1930s represented the three main states of Aleppo, Damascus, and Deir Ezzor.
—Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
According to Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a supergiant red star that’s located in the constellation named Scutum.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2025
Steinhardt, however, has an alternate hypothesis: Some post-starburst galaxies may be, unbeknownst to us, slowly forming small, red stars over time.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
The tricolor has horizontal stripes of green, white, and black, with three red stars down the center stripe, which in the 1930s represented the three main states of Aleppo, Damascus, and Deir Ezzor.
—Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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In this region, stellar populations are sparse, and stars with the necessary mass needed to go supernova and to birth a neutron star at the heart of a pulsar should be vanishingly rare.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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But an unseen companion like a neutron star could be siphoning material away from the larger star — and that may have been enough to release a burst of radio waves, Blanchard said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 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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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
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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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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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In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
2 June 2025
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Instead, these stars leave behind a white dwarf.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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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
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Armed with the knowledge that disks have these slight warps, theorists have a new variable to input into their simulations of how planets are assembled, to gain new insights into how our Earth and the other planets of the solar system came to be.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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That's what good engineering provides, repeatable processes that work regardless of the specific variables.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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TRAPPIST-1e is the fourth planet in orbit around a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a planet while observing Alpha Centauri, a system of three stars orbiting each other — binary stars Alpha Centauri A and B, along with the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 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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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.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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