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Recent Examples of quasar
Imagine a distant light source, like a quasar, that sends light traveling for billions of light-years.
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions.
—Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other?
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2025
Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions.
—Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other?
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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Following its expulsion, the gas, vapor and soot expanded rapidly into the surrounding atmosphere, forming complex patterns reminiscent of a blooming flower, or a nebula formed in the wake of a supernova explosion in the moment the photograph was taken.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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According to the researchers, the star’s long, steady fading is highly unusual and does not match the pattern of a normal supernova.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Feb. 2026
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As the pulsar spins, these beams sweep across the cosmos like the beams of light from a lighthouse.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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The two planets, roughly four times the size of Earth, were discovered to be orbiting around a millisecond pulsar star named PSR B1257+12, which is 2,300 light-years away.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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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
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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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One variable includes whether the clothing and backpack was purchased online or in-store.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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The time change is a new variable that's going to be a new opportunity to deepen our resolve and our devotion.—
Juwayriah Wright,
Time,
17 Feb. 2026
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With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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All three of its contingent stars are huge, hot, blue supergiant stars at vastly different distances from the solar system: Alnitak: 1,260 light-years.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
1 Jan. 2026
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Learning about these highly energized neutrinos could lead to discoveries about where in the universe they might have been created, such as black holes and neutron star collisions — the latter of which are the most powerful classes of explosions in the cosmos.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The project timeline The supercomputer’s construction was kicked off after xAI acquired a 1M sq ft warehouse in Memphis, along with adjacent land, forming the physical footprint for the next phase of the supercluster.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Jan. 2026
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Enterprise customers don't need dedicated GPU superclusters at this scale.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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