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Recent Examples of supergiant
With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.
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David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
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
Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
The supergiant experiences a main period of variability that lasts for roughly 400 days and a more extended secondary period of variability lasting approximately six years.
—Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2025
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David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
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
Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
The supergiant experiences a main period of variability that lasts for roughly 400 days and a more extended secondary period of variability lasting approximately six years.
—Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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These new images reveal the changing clouds of gases being expelled from the site of a powerful supernova that exploded in the year 1054.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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While the supernova’s brightness peaked at around Day 50, astronomers noticed something strange.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
11 Mar. 2026
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And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 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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This region is referred to as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), and its bright emissions are seen on Earth as a quasar.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
17 Mar. 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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The main variable is dealer markup, which isn’t publicly listed and typically requires contacting each company for a quote.—
Nick Perry,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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But the opposing center was the key variable.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
21 Mar. 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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In a new study published on Monday in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers used computers to simulate the two dwarf galaxies’ 100-million-year-long collision.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
19 Mar. 2026
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Amateur astronomers can squint into an eight-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and learn how to identify a dwarf galaxy from a planetary nebula.—
Mark Johanson,
Outside,
18 Mar. 2026
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The solution was to break the problem down, considering each neutron star individually, and its companion as just a source of gravitational tides.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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When such a star was some 10 to 25 times the mass of our sun, that remnant is usually a neutron star.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, researchers imaged the binary star system AFGL 4106, which sits at the heart of a dusty orange cocoon.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis is a binary star system poised for a rare thermonuclear display.—
Michael d'Estries,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Feb. 2026
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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