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Recent Examples of giant star
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.
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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
Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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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
Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
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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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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.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 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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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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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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The binary star system discovered in the new study is the heaviest of its kind that's ever been confirmed, with a combined mass that's 1.56 times that of the sun.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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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The show’s soul, however, is the central relationship between Legoshi, a male gray wolf, and Haru, a female white dwarf rabbit.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Research has shown that type Ia supernovae originate from some binary star systems containing at least one white dwarf.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 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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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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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant%20star. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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