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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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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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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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Blue and red stars shine brightly, while nearby blue spiral galaxies and distant red galaxy groups can also be seen.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
25 June 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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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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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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In this kind of system, scientists theorize that the black hole tears the neutron star apart before swallowing it, which releases electromagnetic waves.—
Chad Hanna,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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Computations weren't merely limited to simple figures, though; the Cat also allowed users to store the result of a computation to a variable and reference that variable in other computations.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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That definitely plays a little bit of a variable into it.—
Joe Smith,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 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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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 16 Sep. 2025.
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