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The nebula has been observed shining in radio, X-ray and visible light, as the cloud of stellar material pushed outward by a supernova explosion 10,000 years ago comes into contact with the mass of interstellar gas beyond.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Hubbard could be eased back into action, given that Dowdle has recently gone supernova.—
Andy Behrens,
New York Times,
17 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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Found by Hubble before JWST’s launch, GNz7q looked like a mix of a galaxy and a quasar.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Oct. 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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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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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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That will be the key variable in this entire season.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 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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The full supercluster would have more than 1 million Ascend chips, according to Huawei.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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The chips designed by Huawei serve as the basis of the company’s AI infrastructure, in which a supercluster is connected to multiple superpods.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
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