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What is astronomically lost in the supernova of when fame and art collide?—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026 -
Called tidal disruption events, these also erupt with energies around that of a supernova.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 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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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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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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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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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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Setting a financial agenda early isn’t about controlling every variable.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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This suggests the presence of an internal, self-evolving latent variable—independent of external stimuli—that shapes the timing structure of motivation and decision-making.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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These transients have brightnesses in between that of classical novas, triggered when a white dwarf hoards material from a companion star thus sparking a runaway nuclear explosion, and supernovas that mark the death of a massive star and the birth of a black hole or a neutron star.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The culprit was a magnetar, a super-magnetized neutron star located about 50,000 light-years away.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2026
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Procyon's white dwarf companion was not found until 1896 at the Lick Observatory in California.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
23 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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“Subdwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdwarf. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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