How to Use giant star in a Sentence
giant star
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Each stage in a giant star’s life is shorter than the last.
—Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
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About 34 light-years from the Sun, Pollux is the closest giant star to our Sun.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
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The blue-white giant star marks the heart of Leo, the lion, the mythical king of the cosmic jungle.
—National Geographic, 4 July 2016
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According to the release, the black hole is a part of a system that includes a giant star 30 times the mass of the sun.
—Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2020
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The two stars are close enough that the white dwarf orbits inside the giant star's gaseous outer layers.
—Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2020
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El Paso is lit by a giant star made of nearly 500 bulbs, shining on the south side of the Franklin Mountains.
—Dallas News, 4 Apr. 2022
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Which, again, is inconsistent with the fact that the giant star at the center of the η Carinae system is still there.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2018
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Neutron stars are formed when a giant star between about eight and 20 times the mass of our sun exhausts its fuel at the end of its life.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2021
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The black hole sucks matter from the giant star, forming a swirling accretion disk that drains into the black hole.
—Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
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In 1987, a giant star exploded right next to our own Milky Way galaxy.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Jan. 2021
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Arcturus is a giant star in the constellation of Boötes, the Herdsman, which looks to me more like a kite than a person.
—Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
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The event will begin with what's called the partial stage, when the moon has not yet fully covered the sun, giving the giant star a crescent shape.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
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During the moment of silence, the giant star players skate through was lit purple and gold.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2020
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Pollux is a cool and bloated orange-colored star, said to be the closest giant star to Earth.
—Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
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Regulus is a blue giant star many times larger than our own sun that is about 77 light-years from Earth.
—Lynn Johnson, National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2020
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But the tiniest cover is still set into motion by a giant star.
—Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 8 July 2020
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In the second pic, Lil Nas X drapes his arms around the man for a mirror selfie, though his face is covered with a giant star emoji.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2022
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Neutron stars, among the most exotic objects in the universe, form from the cores of giant stars that have exploded.
—Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
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When a giant star exhausts its fuel, the star’s mass flows inward and its core collapses.
—quantamagazine.org, 27 Jan. 2021
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Behind her, a giant star is lit on fire, while cowboys circle her on horseback.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Dec. 2020
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The global lockdown has created a huge fall in demand, but the more systemic giant staring down on us is debt.
—The Economist, 20 May 2020
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The team has a hunch that a large object, orbiting the giant star, obscured our view of it briefly — but the nature of the occulting object is uncertain.
—Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 12 June 2021
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This giant star, which marks the eye of the mythical Taurus, the bull constellation, appears less than three degrees from Venus.
—National Geographic, 1 July 2017
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Mars and Arcturus are both about the same brightness right now, and also both very close to the same color -- Arcturus is a bright orange giant star, much like the Sun will be in a few billion years.
—Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2012
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For one, some of the material from the giant star has been captured in a disk that slowly orbits both of the stars at a distance of around 150 times that of the typical Earth-Sun distance.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2020
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Then after a couple of hundred million years, our Sun will swell back up and finish its life as a giant star some two to three hundred times its current size.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
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Arcturus is a bloated orange super giant star more than 25 times the diameter of our sun.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 9 June 2019
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Astronomers capture 'very violent' death of a giant star.
—Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
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This work led to the first sophisticated 2-D model of a giant star in extremis — and this time, the model star exploded.
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
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Furious Endings Right before the moment of its death, a giant star is an inflated, grotesque creature.
—Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
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