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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025 -
Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, by using computer simulations, the researchers were able to determine the future of this 3+1 star system, ending up as just two white dwarf stellar remnants.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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That means a pulsar doesn't have to be perfectly aligned with Earth to be observed via its radio emissions.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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Health was the one controllable variable that was unambiguous.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2026
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Intellectual honesty requires acknowledging the one variable that neither hard nor soft power can fully resolve.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
8 Apr. 2026
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, researchers imaged the binary star system AFGL 4106, which sits at the heart of a dusty orange cocoon.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis is a binary star system poised for a rare thermonuclear display.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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This region is referred to as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), and its bright emissions are seen on Earth as a quasar.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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The most massive stars will die in a core-collapse supernova, often within merely a few million years after their birth.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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This image depicts the supernova remnant SN 185, found some 8,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the sun's closest sibling, the triple star Alpha Centauri.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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