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Recent Examples of red giant
Brightest among the stars captured in Meyer's colorful portrait is the aging red giant Antares, which can be found illuminating the right hand side of the cosmic vista.
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 May 2025
There’s a key reference in Thunderbolts* to a U.S. president turning into a red giant, which is a major plot point in Brave New World.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 1 May 2025
At the upper left-hand corner of the Winter Triangle is the super red giant star Betelgeuse, the second-brightest star in Orion the Hunter.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2025
The two will form a triangle with Aldebaran, the bright red giant star in Taurus, just below — but act quickly because the trio will promptly sink into the horizon.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 10 May 2025
There’s a key reference in Thunderbolts* to a U.S. president turning into a red giant, which is a major plot point in Brave New World.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 1 May 2025
At the upper left-hand corner of the Winter Triangle is the super red giant star Betelgeuse, the second-brightest star in Orion the Hunter.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2025
The two will form a triangle with Aldebaran, the bright red giant star in Taurus, just below — but act quickly because the trio will promptly sink into the horizon.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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Astronomers traced a previous detection of a long-period transient, announced in March, to a white dwarf that’s closely orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
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Crucially, the white dwarf is not destroyed, and the 80-year-long process begins again.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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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.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
12 June 2025
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The lunar disk will appear to close in on Antares as the night of June 9 progresses, with the red star eventually setting above the moon's upper left shoulder as the duo slip beneath the southwestern horizon in the predawn hours of June 10.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 June 2025
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With the quest for longitude over, the observatory explored other avenues of astronomy, such as tracking Earth's magnetic field, viewing planetary transits and characterizing binary star systems.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
22 June 2025
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Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
22 May 2025
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The most violent of these deaths are associated with truly giant stars and are known as supernovas—explosions that sometimes outshine entire galaxies.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Gravitational waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time caused by the motion of massive objects like black holes or neutron stars.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Such interactions between black holes or neutron stars (compact remnants of exploded massive stars) can be studied through the deflection angle, the energy released through the near miss and the momentum of the objects’ recoil—all of which may be discerned in gravitational waves.—
Ramin Skibba,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
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Planners juggle thousands of variables, yet one late part or an unexpected route change can unwind months of work.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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There are variables involved with recent Valparaiso graduate Caden Crowell’s next team.—
Michael Osipoff,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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About the size of Saturn, the new world is circling a red dwarf star about 111 light-years away.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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But Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, with just a fraction of the sun's brightness and size.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 May 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Red giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20giant. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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