red star

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Recent Examples of red star The campaign, which is slated to run locally, nationally and internationally, incorporates the red stars and colors of the Chicago flag, and features scenes of people making doughnuts, running by the lakefront and partying en masse at a live concert. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025 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 Steinhardt, however, has an alternate hypothesis: Some post-starburst galaxies may be, unbeknownst to us, slowly forming small, red stars over time. David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 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 See All Example Sentences for red star
Recent Examples of Synonyms for red star
Noun
  • In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In this kind of system, scientists theorize that the black hole tears the neutron star apart before swallowing it, which releases electromagnetic waves.
    Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Antares is, in reality, a binary star system, made up of a red supergiant star with a white main sequence companion, though the light of the red giant dominates the naked-eye view from Earth.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Detecting and analyzing these oddities can help Bédard, Sahu, and other researchers gain a more comprehensive understanding of the ultimate fate of many binary star systems.
    Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • After weeks, months and years of observations, astronomers will have a time-lapse record revealing anything that explodes, flashes or moves – such as supernovas, variable stars or asteroids.
    Samantha Thompson, Space.com, 7 July 2025
  • Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The other type of star that goes supernova is a giant star with a mass at least eight times greater than the sun.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 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
Noun
  • Instead, these stars leave behind a white dwarf.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • What’s left behind is a massive white dwarf with a hydrogen-helium layer that’s 10 billion times thinner than usual, allowing detectable carbon to reach the surface.
    Andrew Paul Aug 6, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Computations weren't merely limited to simple figures, though; the Cat also allowed users to store the result of a computation to a variable and reference that variable in other computations.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That definitely plays a little bit of a variable into it.
    Joe Smith, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The evolution of intelligent life around red dwarf stars is likely to be an uphill slog, due to the demands needed to jumpstart oxygenic photosynthesis.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This proximity to a red dwarf is problematic, however, as these pipsqueak stars can punch well above their weight by regularly unleashing violent stellar outbursts.
    Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Antares is, in reality, a binary star system, made up of a red supergiant star with a white main sequence companion, though the light of the red giant dominates the naked-eye view from Earth.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Webb’s data revealed an object, named NIR-1, which could be a massive star or a red giant — a sun-like star at the end of its life that has brightened significantly.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Red star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/red%20star. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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