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Recent Examples of red star
Reports of earthquake felt away from source (red star) on February 14, 2025.
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
During his memorial, his coffin was secured on the van and draped in the Syrian flag—not the one that hung from Assad’s palace but an earlier version, with three red stars, that had been revived as an emblem of the revolution.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
See the location of the Hollywood Sign marked by the red star in the image below.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.
—Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
During his memorial, his coffin was secured on the van and draped in the Syrian flag—not the one that hung from Assad’s palace but an earlier version, with three red stars, that had been revived as an emblem of the revolution.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
See the location of the Hollywood Sign marked by the red star in the image below.
—Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
These Earth-sized planets were found orbiting a small red star called TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away with one-tenth of the mass of the sun.
—Lisa Kaltenegger, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As the two orbit each other, the intense gravity of the white dwarf pulls gas off the red giant star.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
13 Apr. 2025
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One is a red giant—a big, luminous star in the process of dying—that’s over 400 times larger than the sun.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes,
17 Oct. 2024
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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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