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Recent Examples of red star
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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For example, colliding neutron stars can release enormous amounts of energy – and elements such as gold – on their way to forming black holes.—
Stephen L. Levy,
The Conversation,
23 June 2025
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Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that send out brief radio wave pulses at rapid intervals.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
15 May 2025
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The discovery means that Betelgeuse is a binary star system.—
Robin George Andrews,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
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Strange things start to happen as the Enterprise follows the Gorn closer to a binary star system.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
17 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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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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In the desert lands of the first century, a young boy catches the sight of a giant star.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
2 June 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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Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is getting weaker.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 July 2025
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What’s more, other recent work, including discoveries by other researchers at UC Irvine, have found that tens of billions of white dwarf stars once believed to be non-starters in the search for life might, in fact, generate enough heat to make a planet habitable.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
16 July 2025
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Moreover, real-world scenarios often have too many variables to be modeled precisely, creating gaps between theoretical predictions and actual behavior.—
Ali Faizan Rizvi,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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And all of those variables depend, in turn, on whether Trump decides to temper the policies — as he’s occasionally proved willing to do, especially when financial markets react badly.—
Jonathan Levin,
Twin Cities,
20 July 2025
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And the odds are in favor of the red dwarf idea, because these dim, cool-burning stars make up about 75% of the stars in our galaxy.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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The coolness of red dwarf stars like LHS 2520 means they are often posited as stars likely to host habitable zones.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
7 July 2025
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That's 83 Ursae Majoris, a red giant star roughly 80 times larger and about 1,300 times more luminous than the sun.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
9 June 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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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