giant star

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for giant star
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant star
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Normally, neutrons are bound within atomic nuclei or in the matter making up extraordinarily powerful stars called neutron stars.
    Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.
    Julian Dossett, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • What's left behind is the raw stellar core — a white dwarf.
    Julian Dossett, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Since this star system of a white dwarf (the dense core of a dead star) and a red supergiant (an expanding cooling star) is 3,000 light-years away, whatever is about to happen did so 3,000 years ago.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.
    Amit Ashkenazi, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • There are simply too many variables to consider, including the genetic influence of does on their male offspring and the role that maturity plays in antler growth.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • One is a red giant—a big, luminous star in the process of dying—that’s over 400 times larger than the sun.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

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