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Recent Examples of quasar
In the late 1960s astronomers started to make extremely high-resolution observations of distant galaxies called quasars.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2025
Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive object sits between Earth and a background source — in this case, RXJ1131-1231 and its quasar.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Stars burn like celestial nuclear fusion reactors, quasars emit thousands of times the luminosity of the Milky Way galaxy, and asteroids slam into planets.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 June 2025
Since both quasars and galaxy mergers happened far more often in the Universe’s first few billion years, the astronomers essentially had to look back in time to see them.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2025
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2025
Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive object sits between Earth and a background source — in this case, RXJ1131-1231 and its quasar.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Stars burn like celestial nuclear fusion reactors, quasars emit thousands of times the luminosity of the Milky Way galaxy, and asteroids slam into planets.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 June 2025
Since both quasars and galaxy mergers happened far more often in the Universe’s first few billion years, the astronomers essentially had to look back in time to see them.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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For years, Weber claimed to continue to detect these waves, including when our Local Group’s closest and most recent supernova went off in 1987.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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This new chink in the armor of dark energy resulted from Lee and colleagues from Yonsei University discovering that Type Ia supernova may not be quite so standard after all.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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This observation seemed to support the pulsar theory, with experts theorizing that the glow would have taken a more spherical form if its source were dark matter.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
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Science fiction has, of course, been portraying exoplanets for decades, and in 1992, radio astronomers Dale Frail and Aleksander Wolszczan discovered planets orbiting a pulsar, the spinning remnant of a massive star that has gone supernova.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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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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North wind moving 5-8 mph will become light and variable after midnight.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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For as much planning that goes into a stadium flip of this magnitude, after all — the weather is the variable that isn’t in Tepper Sports’ hands.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Oct. 2025
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The album title is a reference to a red supergiant star 10,000 light-years away from Earth.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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Skywatchers on Saturday night will be treated to the gorgeous sight of a waxing crescent moon close to Antares, an unmistakably bright red supergiant star shining in the south.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 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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In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The full supercluster would have more than 1 million Ascend chips, according to Huawei.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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