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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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That is a mystery in itself, as scientists can't explain how a white dwarf with no surrounding disk of matter can maintain an outflow for such a prolonged period of time.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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To understand a nova, first understand a white dwarf.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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What is a neutron star, or pulsar?—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 Dec. 2025
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Pulsar 2849 intrigued me with its neutron star premise.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
21 Dec. 2025
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In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
2 Jan. 2026
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Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 Dec. 2025
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Players getting paid can also affect locker room chemistry and become another variable to be managed.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the number will stay low but variable.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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But when a binary star about to go supernova threatens the planet Adjumir, Maw’s beloved Gebre entrusts him with an artifact and the order to leave him behind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Imagine a distant light source, like a quasar, that sends light traveling for billions of light-years.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Dec. 2025
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This bending can create multiple images of the same quasar, each taking a slightly different path and therefore arriving at Earth at different times.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Dec. 2025
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The other two instruments are really cool as well; they can both be used to dissect secrets of the cosmos, like the mystery of the universe's expansion rate (popularly called the Hubble Tension) and help with supernova modeling.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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This is called a supernova explosion.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
4 Jan. 2026
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