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Recent Examples of neutron star
The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
Similar bright explosions may be produced not only by binary neutron star mergers, but also by mergers involving neutron stars and black holes, or even other types of compact stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, the leftover cores of Sun-like stars.
—Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
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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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Mar. 2026
When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
Similar bright explosions may be produced not only by binary neutron star mergers, but also by mergers involving neutron stars and black holes, or even other types of compact stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, the leftover cores of Sun-like stars.
—Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutron star
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, researchers imaged the binary star system AFGL 4106, which sits at the heart of a dusty orange cocoon.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis is a binary star system poised for a rare thermonuclear display.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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But with patience and a spirit of exploration, each step reveals a surprise: tiny red stars, minute purple pinpoints, a wash of pink-white across a creek.—
Alissa Greenberg,
Mercury News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Discovered in 1999, this small red star has no fewer than seven rocky planets in its habitable zone.—
Joanna Thompson,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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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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In the center is a white dwarf, the dense, compact core of a dying star.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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Morgan Giese, a physics and astronomy PhD candidate at Western, discovered the buckyballs are mostly surrounding the white dwarf in their own shell.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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But after a long conversation with the guard Saturday, Redick said the most important variable is the player’s confidence.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The statute of limitations is another critical variable in this equation.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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This autumn, though, the feminist alt-rock icons are finally giving us one hell of a sonic supernova.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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Astronomers now think that this Ursa Major Arc may be a shock wave from an explosion or a supernova that happened over 100,000 years ago.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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However, in the nearby Andromeda galaxy, a giant star seems to have taken a very different path.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Feb. 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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Once orbiting each other, the brown dwarfs would have gradually spiraled closer and closer together, with the gravitational influence of one brown dwarf causing its counterpart to puff out and become less dense.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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What’s left is likely to be a large gas giant, possibly somewhere between Jupiter and a brown dwarf star in mass.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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