PhysicsWord. com, Earth could survive a red-giant Sun Let's take the sun out of the equation.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP Invents a New Junk Science: 'Galaxy Warming'!] Reference

It's a picture of silver globes in the hot fringes of a red-giant star, ducking and diving as they try to find just the right place to meet - or to gain advantage in a long slow battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Converting obscure music files from one format to another] Reference

The new discovery is helping astronomers to understand what will happen to the planets in our solar system when our sun becomes a red-giant star, expanding so much that its surface will reach as far as Earth's orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 3rd, 2007] Reference

I pictured a world, a planet circling a red-giant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alphecca] Reference

PhysicsWord. com, Earth could survive a red-giant Sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Existentialist Cowboy] Reference

"When red-giant stars expand, they tend to eat up the nearby planets," said Wolszczan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

Kepler recorded thousands of red-giant stars humming in response to their internal rumblings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

If the second planet exists, the system would become the first multiplanet system discovered around a red-giant star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

In the longer term, our distant descendants will have to leave Earth entirely before the sun goes all red-giant on us.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

Over the next several million years, the star will puff off its outer layers of gas until it becomes a bloated red-giant star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

The team's newly discovered planet is interesting because it is located closer to a red-giant star than any other known planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

Kepler also listened to the vibrations of more than a thousand red-giant stars ranging from a few to several dozen times bigger than the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

In 6.3 billion years, when the Sun is in its red-giant stage and is 2.2 times brighter than today, a planet at that distance will receive about as much sunlight as the Earth receives today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

A team of astronomers from Penn State and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland has discovered a new planet that is closely orbiting a red-giant star, HD 102272, which is much more evolved than our own Sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

If we spaced them evenly, that would mean about one close pass every 1000 to 6000 years, depending on whether we wanted to reach the orbit of Mars by the time the Sun started to vaporise the ocean, or when it hit its red-giant phase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

It is important to find out why planets don't want to get any closer to stars, so one of our next steps is to try to figure out why this zone of avoidance exists and whether it occurs around all red-giant stars. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference