How to Use Antares in a Sentence

Antares

noun
  • Antares will be about 17 degrees high.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Antares, by contrast, will gleam as a reddish point of light.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In contrast, Antares is one of the reddest stars in the sky.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • Antares will shine as a bright red point of light roughly 5 degrees to the upper left of the waxing moon.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But what sets the Antares reactors apart is that they are cooled by liquid-sodium heat pipes.
    — David Szondy june 08, New Atlas, 8 June 2026
  • Look out for the red light of the supergiant star Antares glowing close to the lower left of the moon.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 30 May 2026
  • That bright spec of light is Antares — a red supergiant star nearing the end of its stellar life cycle.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • First, find the bright star Antares in the constellation Scorpius.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Its brightest star, Antares, marks the heart of the celestial scorpion.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • Antares will appear to disappear behind the moon's upper right quadrant.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Both the moon and Antares will set fairly soon after nightfall, so aim to catch the view within the first hour of darkness.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Antares reactor is designed for use on land in support of microgrids.
    — Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • So even when Mars is near opposition and appears to glow many times brighter, Antares still rivals it at least in color.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • The ‘nuclear renaissance’ Antares was founded only two years ago.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Below and slightly to the right of the moon will be Antares, easily visible as twilight deepens.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Northrop Grumman would have preferred to launch this mission on its own rocket, the Antares, but that's no longer possible.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • If our solar system were centered on Antares, the orbit of the Earth would easily fit within this star.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • One can use Antares to spot the claws of Scorpius — three stars that form a roughly vertical line to the right (west) of Antares.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Enormous celestial beacon Antares is a cool, red supergiant star, about 550 light-years away.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • Antares, the red heart of the constellation Scorpius, is a red supergiant roughly 550 light-years away.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There won't be any disappearing act for those looking up elsewhere in the world, with Antares constantly visible alongside the full moon.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • There won’t be any disappearing act for those looking up elsewhere in the world, with Antares constantly visible alongside the full moon.
    — Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • Rocket Lab has a small launch pad for its light-class Electron launcher co-located with the Antares pad at Wallops.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This new moon will not eclipse the sun, but the three-day-old moon will eclipse the red supergiant Antares, the brightest star in Scorpius, the Scorpion.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Some 5,000 years ago, the Persians thought of Antares as one of the four Royal Stars, a guardian of heaven.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 26 June 2026
  • South of the equator and across the Pacific, some will see the moon cross over the constellation and obstruct the view of Antares temporarily.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 29 May 2026
  • The scene could be especially thrilling south of the equator and across the Pacific, as the moon will appear to cross in front of Antares and obscure it, astronomers said.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • May's full Blue Moon put on a dazzling display over the weekend, flooding the night sky with moonlight as the red supergiant star Antares glowed nearby.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 1 June 2026
  • The Air Force also has been practicing transporting small reactors, some of which like the Antares one fit on tractor trailers.
    — Brandon Lingle, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • This week, Nuclear startup Antares has raised $96 million in a Series B funding round.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Dec. 2025

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