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Recent Examples of red star
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.
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Kelly Connolly, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Satellite map of the tsunami's leading edge (red), with the epicenter depicted by a red star.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
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
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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Kelly Connolly, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Satellite map of the tsunami's leading edge (red), with the epicenter depicted by a red star.
—Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Aug. 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 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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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 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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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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For so many elements to still be visible implies that their accretion onto the white dwarf must have happened relatively recently — within the past 35,000 years.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 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 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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North wind moving 5-8 mph will become light and variable after midnight.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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For as much planning that goes into a stadium flip of this magnitude, after all — the weather is the variable that isn’t in Tepper Sports’ hands.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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