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Recent Examples of quasar
Having the tools to shore up your scripts — a better understanding of the nature of quasars, or the wave-particle duality of matter and light — is surely no bad thing.
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Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The baby quasars in JWST’s first year of observations are more numerous than scientists had predicted based on the census of adult quasars—between 10 times and 100 times more abundant.
—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
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Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The baby quasars in JWST’s first year of observations are more numerous than scientists had predicted based on the census of adult quasars—between 10 times and 100 times more abundant.
—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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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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For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
16 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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After carefully analyzing the colors of each of the stars inside the Dragon Arc, the researchers found many are red supergiants, which are stars in their final stages of life.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
6 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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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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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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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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