How to Use supernova in a Sentence

supernova

noun

• The star lost a large chunk of its mass before its reverse shock supernova.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Apr. 2022
• Two types of stars explode as a supernova.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Of course, many of those voices would blame him if a distant star went supernova.
  — Marc J. Randazza, CNN, 19 May 2017
• Just one supernova can eject more than a solar mass of oxygen.
  — Ken Croswell, Scientific American, 1 July 2020
• Then, in the fall of that year, the researchers witnessed a supernova in the same spot.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
• Beal spent much of the night going supernova on his way to 45 points.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2021
• The other type of star that goes supernova is a giant star with a mass at least eight times greater than the sun.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• This is a brief flash as the supernova shockwave breaks out through the outer layer of the star.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The researchers hope to find more examples of the third type of supernova.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2021
• And this was for the whole bowl of ramen — a state championship supernova.
  — Stephen English, star-telegram, 23 Dec. 2017
• The explosions unleashed by supernovas are among the strongest known in the world.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• The amount of attention on me has gone supernova, which super sucks.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2022
• With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that brightness fades over time.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Being near a supernova can ruin your day.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2026
• The bright burst occurred when the star exploded in a supernova.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 Sep. 2021
• The light from this supernova first reached Earth in the 1670s.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Apr. 2021
• The eight-million-year-old red giant is on the brink of star death, also known as going supernova.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• The birth of the Pogacar supernova is now set to ripple across the cycling galaxy for years to come.
  — John Leicester, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2020
• Buso didn't have to search, because his first batch of images contained no sign of the supernova.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2018
• Bruno says watching Rashad was like watching a rising star that went supernova at just the right time.
  — Amy Watts, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2017
• Perhaps Betelgeuse was at the end of its life and could explode in a supernova brighter than the full moon.
  — Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• This wasn’t a typical supernova, the fireworks at the end of a massive star’s life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2019
• Brilliant, like a supernova, then gone.
  — Eli Raphael, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
• More data will be needed to tease these details out of the supernova’s spectrum.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• This is the mass limit that a stellar remnant has to exceed to trigger a supernova.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Boss still favors the theory that our cloud of dust was ignited by a supernova.
  — James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2026
• Oh sure, there’s the occasional supernova and a bit of unrest as huge gas clouds collide and start to form stars.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
• These eat their way through the dying star and erupt outward while the rest of the star explodes as a very powerful supernova.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2022
• One of the two companions is a neutron star formed in the aftermath of a supernova of a massive star.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2020
• And last year, an Italian locksmith captured the first ever shot of a supernova's first light.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2019