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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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Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 May 2025
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Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
7 May 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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This leaves behind a white dwarf as a gradually-cooling stellar ember.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The white dwarfs are currently orbiting around each other, with each orbit lasting over 14 hours.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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With so many options and variables, Feldman said the choice comes down to individual needs and preferences.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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The bonuses are also influenced by other variables, including in-game interviews with players and the TV ratings their games generate.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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Discovered in 1916 by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, Barnard’s Star is a small and slow-burning red dwarf classified by astronomers as an M-type star.—
Tom Metcalfe,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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Multiple kinds of observations from a variety of instruments led groups to a rare phenomenon: a white dwarf tightly orbiting a red dwarf every 125 minutes.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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The two will form a triangle with Aldebaran, the bright red giant star in Taurus, just below — but act quickly because the trio will promptly sink into the horizon.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
28 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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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