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Recent Examples of neutron star
As the star's core rapidly crushes down to form a neutron star, the outer layers and most of the star's mass are blown away in a core-collapse supernova.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
One of those stars would be a small, super-dense neutron star and the other would be some sort of orbiting companion star.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Magnetars are a type of neutron star with incredibly strong magnetic fields — a lot stronger than those of typical neutron stars, which can cause the magnetar to release enormous bursts of energy in just a fraction of a second.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 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
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
One of those stars would be a small, super-dense neutron star and the other would be some sort of orbiting companion star.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Magnetars are a type of neutron star with incredibly strong magnetic fields — a lot stronger than those of typical neutron stars, which can cause the magnetar to release enormous bursts of energy in just a fraction of a second.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutron star
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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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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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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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What's left behind is the raw stellar core — a white dwarf.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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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
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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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Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.—
Amit Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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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
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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Type 1a supernovas are very helpful for scientists, because supernovas tend to explode with roughly the same amount of energy.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Subtle irregularities in how the brown dwarfs moved hinted that something unseen was tugging on them—something in an unusual orbit.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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This means one of the brown dwarfs eclipses the other, as seen from our vantage point on Earth.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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