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Recent Examples of astrophysical
Adiabatic expansion is an important property in thermodynamics, in engines, in astrophysical gases and plasmas, and also in the expanding Universe.
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Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
Sloshing out from the inaccessible hearts of collapsing stars and from the tumultuous spacetime churnings of merging black holes and neutron stars, gravitational waves provide deep, fundamental insights about these faraway astrophysical systems that are otherwise unavailable.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
This chemical information could then be used to constrain astrophysical models of the Wolf-Rayet scenario for the start of the solar system.
—James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2026
Almost 400 such shots are deployed each year to test materials under stress and further our understanding of the physics of nuclear weapons testing and astrophysical phenomena like supernovas.
—Frances Stead Sellers, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
But what if there's an astrophysical creature that refuses to play by the rules?
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
The work also demonstrates how astrophysical objects, especially those in extreme environments, can reveal tiny violations of gravity’s foundational laws, such as the equivalence principle or the inverse-square law.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
The horizontal gray bar in the central region corresponds to the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical radiation.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 25 Nov. 2025
These phenomena offered scientists new insights into the nature of astrophysical phenomena and fundamental physics.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
Sloshing out from the inaccessible hearts of collapsing stars and from the tumultuous spacetime churnings of merging black holes and neutron stars, gravitational waves provide deep, fundamental insights about these faraway astrophysical systems that are otherwise unavailable.
—K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
This chemical information could then be used to constrain astrophysical models of the Wolf-Rayet scenario for the start of the solar system.
—James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2026
Almost 400 such shots are deployed each year to test materials under stress and further our understanding of the physics of nuclear weapons testing and astrophysical phenomena like supernovas.
—Frances Stead Sellers, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
But what if there's an astrophysical creature that refuses to play by the rules?
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
The work also demonstrates how astrophysical objects, especially those in extreme environments, can reveal tiny violations of gravity’s foundational laws, such as the equivalence principle or the inverse-square law.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
The horizontal gray bar in the central region corresponds to the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical radiation.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 25 Nov. 2025
These phenomena offered scientists new insights into the nature of astrophysical phenomena and fundamental physics.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for astrophysical
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One of the Mega Balls was taken away to make the astronomical odds of winning the jackpot slightly better, and the minimum prize amount a player could win was increased to $10.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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In the early 2000s astronomers analyzed the light from more than 200,000 galaxies using data from 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey—a major astronomical project that mapped a large volume of the universe.—
Manjishtha Bhattacharyya,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The pink cloud at the center of the shot is the Homunculus Nebula, a vast glowing structure of interstellar dust and gas 7,500 light-years from Earth, according to NASA, created in the wake of a cataclysmic eruption of the double star system Eta Carinae.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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All of this ancient-looking hardware was tasked with overseeing the operational safety of the Voyager craft, which are currently well over 16 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Astrophysical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/astrophysical. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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