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Recent Examples of red star
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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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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Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 May 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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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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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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The planet in question, imaginatively named K2-18b, is about two and a half times the size of Earth and orbits a red dwarf star.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 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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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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