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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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Next up, the team hopes to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study the white dwarf and the exo-Pluto in infrared light.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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This theoretical limit concerns how much matter can be accreted to a compact body like a neutron star or black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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The X-ray data, in purple, shows the hot gas/plasma created by the central pulsar, which is clearly identifiable in both the individual and the composite image.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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The characteristics of the supernova's hot gas, combined with the motion of the pulsar, allowed the team to determine the age of the system and its distance more precisely.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Adelman’s vision for Murray’s substitution pattern will be another variable.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
24 Sep. 2025
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Here, hot weather is the confounding variable leading to both outcomes.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
23 Sep. 2025
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Using artificial neutral networks, his tool allows astronomers to distinguish true binary star systems from chance alignments in massive data sets like the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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The double stars of Albireo are considered a binary star system, just over 400 light-years away, with just one light-year equaling nearly 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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Additionally, this quasar is also producing jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, a rare feature among quasars.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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In the late 1960s astronomers started to make extremely high-resolution observations of distant galaxies called quasars.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
29 Aug. 2025
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One is an unusual type of supernova explosion that lasted much longer than those that typically release gamma rays, Levan said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Together, these guest stars form a supernova of talent designed to overcome such trivial challenges as coherence through sheer brute force.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
17 Sep. 2025
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