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One is directly, by observing 'standard candles' — that is, objects with predictable luminosities such as Cepheid variables, type Ia supernova explosions, and red giant stars — in galaxies and determining how far away they are based on the apparent brightness of these standard candles.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
As the red giant sheds its outer layers, the white dwarf will pull the hydrogen waste to its own surface.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
In five billion years' time, our sun will turn into a white dwarf after its red giant phase.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
As the red giant sheds its outer layers, the white dwarf will pull the hydrogen waste to its own surface.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
In five billion years' time, our sun will turn into a white dwarf after its red giant phase.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf—the stage of stellar evolution that follows a red giant—provides evidence that survival is a possibility, researchers reported last week in Nature Astronomy.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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What's left behind is the raw stellar core — a white dwarf.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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Astronomers have theorized that supernovas such as these are caused by two white dwarfs orbiting each other in a binary star system, when one of them consumes the other.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the finale at the end of a giant star’s life.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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But the intense confines of the neutron star's interior keep the neutrons stable and free-flowing.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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For true stellar heavyweights—stars with more than about eight times the sun’s mass—the end comes as a catastrophic supernova explosion that leaves behind a neutron star or black hole.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2025
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Anyone who begins developing a digital construction platform without considering these variables is already off to an auspicious start.—
Michael Pink,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The perpetual variable in this is Ranger Suárez, who threw 78 pitches in 4 2/3 innings Sunday at Triple A.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Based on the fact that the typical star in the Milky Way is considerably smaller than the Sun, the researchers assume a red dwarf, which produces a planet with a mass about 1.3 times that of Earth.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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Here's why the debate continues — Earth-size planet discovered around cool red dwarf star shares its name with a biscuit The team will now continue to use KMTNet and gravitational lensing to hunt for lensing planetary systems in an attempt to discover more super-Earths in wide orbits.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 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 May. 2025.
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