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Recent Examples of red star
The two then turned and watched as a pair of giant red stars appeared on the big screen behind them, announcing Emeril’s as the only restaurant in the region to be awarded two Michelin stars.
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Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
First, locate the red star Betelgeuse using a smartphone astronomy app.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The look of his No. 88 car has been overhauled, featuring the red cross, red stars, and silver ferns on a black backdrop.
—Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2025
The oversize jacket on the Kardashians star also had red stars detailed underneath the bold, white lettering.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
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Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2025
First, locate the red star Betelgeuse using a smartphone astronomy app.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
The look of his No. 88 car has been overhauled, featuring the red cross, red stars, and silver ferns on a black backdrop.
—Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2025
The oversize jacket on the Kardashians star also had red stars detailed underneath the bold, white lettering.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
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Learning about these highly energized neutrinos could lead to discoveries about where in the universe they might have been created, such as black holes and neutron star collisions — the latter of which are the most powerful classes of explosions in the cosmos.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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But when a binary star about to go supernova threatens the planet Adjumir, Maw’s beloved Gebre entrusts him with an artifact and the order to leave him behind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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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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Finally, the nebula fades away and only a white dwarf is left behind.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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Procyon's white dwarf companion was not found until 1896 at the Lick Observatory in California.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Together, images like these help astronomers build a broader picture of what's happening across a giant star factory rather than focusing on only one bright hotspot.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Cheri Mossburg,
CNN Money,
26 Nov. 2025
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Of course, prices aren't the only variable that negotiations hinge on.—
Darius Tahir,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2026
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Progress one variable at a time—either speed or workout length.—
Stephanie Anderson Witmer,
Health,
6 Feb. 2026
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The star, named StKM 1-1262, is a red dwarf star about 130 light-years from Earth.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Nov. 2025
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With help from the ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory, the team traced the energy waves to a red dwarf located around 130 light-years away from Earth known as StKM 1-1262.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
12 Nov. 2025
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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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