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The album title is a reference to a red supergiant star 10,000 light-years away from Earth.
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star close to the end of its life, as it’s rapidly burned through all of its hydrogen fuel and is now burning helium instead.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
So close, in fact, that the second star plows through the tenuous outer atmosphere of the red supergiant.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025
Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star close to the end of its life, as it’s rapidly burned through all of its hydrogen fuel and is now burning helium instead.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
So close, in fact, that the second star plows through the tenuous outer atmosphere of the red supergiant.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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What is astronomically lost in the supernova of when fame and art collide?—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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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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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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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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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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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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The ditch that’s up to 19 feet deep dwarfs the heavy machinery inside of it.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2026
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Selections available on the market include ‘Pride of Houston’, a medium to tall female shrub with a heavy fruit set, and ‘Schillings Dwarf’, a dwarf selection that grows only 3–4 feet tall and wide.—
Daniel Scott,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 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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But when a binary star about to go supernova threatens the planet Adjumir, Maw’s beloved Gebre entrusts him with an artifact and the order to leave him behind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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