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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.
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Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
One day this boy wants to be a red star inside those red walls.
—Michael Walker, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Reports of earthquake felt away from source (red star) on February 14, 2025.
—Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
One day this boy wants to be a red star inside those red walls.
—Michael Walker, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Reports of earthquake felt away from source (red star) on February 14, 2025.
—Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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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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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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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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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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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 object could be a white dwarf—an Earth-sized husk that remains after a star has exhausted its nuclear fuel.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 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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This may become particularly relevant when the proximate red giant star known as Betelgeuse, located around 700 light-years away, goes supernova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 June 2025
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Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the night sky is an aging red giant only 36.6 light years away.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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