as in supernova
astronomy
a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness and then within a few months or years becomes less bright again
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Recent Examples of nova
To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nova
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Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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The effect is to make type-Ia supernovas look further away than expected and so appear to be moving faster.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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Their origins are not fully understood, but they are expected to be produced by some of the most powerful events in the Universe, from collapsing stars and pulsars to the volatile environments around the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.—
Matt von Hippel,
Ars Technica,
25 Nov. 2024
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This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Dec. 2024
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But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
29 Nov. 2024
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Measurements of distances to quasars based on radio-interferometric techniques, for instance, are advancing, and there are prospects for using fluctuations in galaxy-surface brightness.—
Marc Kamionkowski,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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Holidays Holidays are another variable to consider.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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Stevenson explained the 20th century French literary travel philosophy of psychogeography posited that travelling on the same path twice never leads to the same experience because other variables are ever changing.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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Because the creatures looked a bit different than other supergiants, some of them were sent to Prof. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
14 Jan. 2025
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Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological fertilizers for our galaxy at large.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun Astronomers hypothesize that the FRBs could be originating from two supernova remnants, called neutron stars, that are merging or collapsing onto themselves, Shah said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
8 Mar. 2024
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The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.—
Kenneth Chang,
New York Times,
3 June 2024
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“Nova.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nova. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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