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Recent Examples of red giant
Arcturus’ orange-red glow is typical of stars classified as red giants.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
In the process of becoming a white dwarf, a star will expand to 10 to 100 times its original radius during the red giant phase.
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
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
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
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
In the process of becoming a white dwarf, a star will expand to 10 to 100 times its original radius during the red giant phase.
—Juliette Becker, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red giant
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Their relationship is even more involved than that — the gravitational pull of the white dwarf is actually stretching Wolf 1130A into an egg shape toward it.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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The yellow ball, with its signature blue stripe and red star, can be spotted among other toys in movies like Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, Inside Out, and the Toy Story franchise.—
Kelly Connolly,
EW.com,
24 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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Using artificial neutral networks, his tool allows astronomers to distinguish true binary star systems from chance alignments in massive data sets like the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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The double stars of Albireo are considered a binary star system, just over 400 light-years away, with just one light-year equaling nearly 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 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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All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
1 Aug. 2025
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When their cores run out of fuel, gravity crushes them inward, triggering supernovae that leave behind a neutron star or black hole.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 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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Fixed or variable SecureEquity SecureEquity is Mutual of Omaha's exclusive jumbo reverse mortgage.—
Kelsey Neubauer,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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Knowing this, the military was intensely interested in optimization problems — that is, how to strategically allocate limited resources in situations that could involve hundreds or thousands of variables.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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The phosphine was identified in the cold atmosphere of a brown dwarf called Wolf 1130C, which exists in a triple system along with a low-mass red dwarf star and a white dwarf.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 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 19 Oct. 2025.
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