For the first time, astronomers have watched a variable star swell and shrink.
For a traditionally trained navigator, these inputs include physical signals from the sea, skies, and stars, memory signals from his knowledge of star, swell, and wind compasses; and cultural knowledge recorded in chants, dances, and stories.
The outer parts of the star expand outward because of the increased burning there, and as the star swells up, its luminosity gradually increases.
A synthesized, ersatz Hans Zimmer score builds as you swing past the gas giants, then dies down near the minor planetoids of Pluto and Eris; it erupts again as new stars swell from a pinpoint to their properly scaled size, dwarfing the sun.
These giant stars swell and shrink periodically, causing them to brighten and dim regularly.
During their death throes, as they are running out of fuel for the nuclear furnace in their cores, giant stars swell up to enormous size and eject huge amounts of gas and dust into space.
He likes big moments, glamorous stars, swells of music and tears that fall like rain — and sometimes hail.
Encouraged, Mau learned basic navigational clues regarding the "stars, swells, and birds" from Raangipi, but his grandfather died sometime before Mau was fourteen.
Joaquin De Luz, Tyler Angle and Damian Woetzel were the sailors, each better than the last, while Amanda Hankes and Jenifer Ringer (who really did look like a 40's movie star) were swell as the two main women.
Ms. Swank's ardent sincerity and naked emotionalism dovetail nicely with Mr. LaGravenese's melodramatic excesses: Together the director and his star create a swell of feeling that helps blunt your reservations about being played as an easy mark, a sap or, worse, a girl, even if that's exactly what you are.
Arcturus is a red giant star, which has swollen in its old age until it has reached 25 times the girth of our Sun.
