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Her star tattoo fully healed, Grant hopes the giant star – like Altadena itself – survives and thrives, not only in homage to what was lost but what could be.
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Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
Burst of energy could be from consumption of wayward giant star
After considering a list of suspects behind the flare, the researchers determined that the most likely culprit is what's known as a tidal disruption event.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 5 Nov. 2025
All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
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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Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
Burst of energy could be from consumption of wayward giant star
After considering a list of suspects behind the flare, the researchers determined that the most likely culprit is what's known as a tidal disruption event.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 5 Nov. 2025
All the stuff, really, enough to make a bona-fide, honest-to-God, true-blue spoof feature, the kind made by a studio and with a budget and giant stars and a full-fledged theatrical release.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
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Discovered in 1999, this small red star has no fewer than seven rocky planets in its habitable zone.—
Joanna Thompson,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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According to this idea, although these objects may look like supersize red stars, their shine is powered not by standard stellar thermonuclear fusion but rather by the relentless funneling of burning-hot plasma into the insatiable maw of a snowballing black hole.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, researchers imaged the binary star system AFGL 4106, which sits at the heart of a dusty orange cocoon.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis is a binary star system poised for a rare thermonuclear display.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.—
Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 2026
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In another imaging campaign, API, assisted by AMIGO, was able to produce detailed images of a black hole jet, the volcanic surface of Jupiter's moon Io, and stellar winds emanating from a distant variable star.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Additionally, by using computer simulations, the researchers were able to determine the future of this 3+1 star system, ending up as just two white dwarf stellar remnants.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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Finally, its now-inert core contracts down to form a white dwarf, while the prior ejecta get heated up and ionized, creating a planetary nebula.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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And that’s the key variable driving his OPOY odds.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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The most dangerous variable, instructors often say, is not the snowpack.—
Jane Sadowsky,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Because our Sun will eventually become a red giant, the findings offer insight into its distant future.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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Then, about four to five billion years later, our Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel in its core, evolving into a red giant.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Giant star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant%20star. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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