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Recent Examples of supergiant
The bright-red supergiant star Aldebaran will align with the trio.
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024
The Winter Triangle is formed by three bright stars: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky in the constellation Canis Major, Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in Orion, and Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
The red supergiant star, called WOH G64, is about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
In their final life stages, red supergiants like WOH G64 shed their outer layers of gas and dust in a process that can last thousands of years.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
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Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024
The Winter Triangle is formed by three bright stars: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky in the constellation Canis Major, Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in Orion, and Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
The red supergiant star, called WOH G64, is about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
In their final life stages, red supergiants like WOH G64 shed their outer layers of gas and dust in a process that can last thousands of years.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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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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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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Emperor tamarins are dwarf monkeys with whiskers that resemble a white moustache.—
Robert Higgs,
cleveland,
1 Feb. 2023
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The dwarf variety grows to be about 5 to 7 feet, ideal for a small garden or accent in a room with limited space.—
Bryce Jones,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Jan. 2023
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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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However, the existence of a white dwarf is not sufficient for a Type la supernova; the white draft must also be part of a binary star system, in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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New York has no issue in that regard — second in offensive rating, third in shooting percentage and a binary star averaging more than 50 points per game.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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