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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.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
This nebula, 6,500 light years away from Earth, is a remnant of a supernova in the constellation Taurus – a giant star explosion observed from Earth in 1054 AD, as historical records indicate.
—Paul Ratner, Interesting Engineering, 19 Dec. 2024
Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Hamal is a giant star in our Milky Way galaxy that dwarfs our sun with a diameter of at least 13 million miles.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025
This nebula, 6,500 light years away from Earth, is a remnant of a supernova in the constellation Taurus – a giant star explosion observed from Earth in 1054 AD, as historical records indicate.
—Paul Ratner, Interesting Engineering, 19 Dec. 2024
Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Hamal is a giant star in our Milky Way galaxy that dwarfs our sun with a diameter of at least 13 million miles.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
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Steinhardt, however, has an alternate hypothesis: Some post-starburst galaxies may be, unbeknownst to us, slowly forming small, red stars over time.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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According to Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a supergiant red star that’s located in the constellation named Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
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These waves may also create detectable radio signals, potentially allowing astronomers to catch two distinct bursts from a single neutron star–black hole collision.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
5 June 2025
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With their extremely strong magnetic fields, these neutron stars – small, dense collapsed cores of supergiant stars – are capable of producing the powerful bursts of energy that have been observed for years.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
31 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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Indeed, most white dwarfs are seen to have extremely pure atmospheres of just those two lighter elements.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2025
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Sporadic radio pulses from a white dwarf binary at the orbital period Max Planck Institute.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Exposing environment variables to unknown inference endpoints off the security team’s radar.—
Anshu Bansal,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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The lab, founded in 1961, is still known worldwide for its computer modeling of the planet that enable scientists to make projections for how climate change may affect global temperatures, precipitation, extreme weather events and other variables.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Brightest among the stars captured in Meyer's colorful portrait is the aging red giant Antares, which can be found illuminating the right hand side of the cosmic vista.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
10 May 2025
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There’s a key reference in Thunderbolts* to a U.S. president turning into a red giant, which is a major plot point in Brave New World.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
1 May 2025
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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant%20star. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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