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red giant

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as in white dwarf

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Recent Examples of red giant Roughly five billion years from now, the sun will follow the same path as this star, expanding into a red giant before shrinking into a white dwarf. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 1 July 2026 The star system consists of a red giant star and a white dwarf locked in a close orbit. — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 The first is the red giant phase, during which the sun will dramatically increase in size after running out of hydrogen in its core. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026 There are even some wilder suggestions out there, like moving Earth’s orbit farther from the Sun or removing some of the Sun’s mass to tame the red giant. — Scott K. Johnson, ArsTechnica, 15 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for red giant

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This investigation was conducted in ultraviolet light and using custom calibration to prevent flaring from the red dwarf companions from mimicking white dwarf signals.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 July 2026
The planet either warmed up while engulfed during the red giant phase, or began heating as gravity pulled it closer to the resultant white dwarf.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026

Definition of white dwarf

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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
Instead, Lohan put her right hand in the shot, showing off a bubble bath pink natural nail polish as well as a small red star tattoo.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 6 Jan. 2026

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The shim also embeds the policy so enforcement doesn’t rely exclusively on the external variable.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2026
The Carry's replaceable battery supplies up to four hours of training time (variable on usage and operating conditions) per charge.

— Shirl Leigh July 13, New Atlas, 13 July 2026

Definition of variable

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This variable star is also located 250 light-years from Earth, but is sadly lost from view in the glare of the sun during the summer months.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 June 2026
Mroz counters, however, that none of those cases are actual microlensing events and instead the mere fluctuations of ordinary variable stars.

— Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 June 2026

Definition of variable star

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Looking at a red dwarf improves matters, since there’s less light overall, and planets are relatively larger compared to these small stars.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
But the red dwarf that this planet orbits is roughly 6 billion years old, a few billion years older than the age at which their extreme radiation activity begins calming down.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 16 July 2026

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