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Recent Examples of supergiant
However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
The companion orbits Betelgeuse once every five to six years, sweeping through the red supergiant’s outer atmosphere.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
The companion orbits Betelgeuse once every five to six years, sweeping through the red supergiant’s outer atmosphere.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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What the champagne supernova has taught us is that this isn’t all Kyle’s fault, this isn’t all because of his partying and DJ-ing and mullet (please don’t bring it back).—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
17 June 2026
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Jason Andrew / Jason Andrew for NBC News The third survey will focus on supernova explosions that occurred up to 8 billion years ago.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
15 June 2026
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That is because, whereas previous research has suggested just a few hundred pulsars could be enough to account for the Galactic Center Excess, these findings indicate that the pulsar population at the heart of the Milky Way would have to be greater than 35,000.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
21 June 2026
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For stellar-mass black holes—which, like pulsars, are forged in the collapsing core of an exploding massive star—there are some caveats.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
5 June 2026
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The redshift of the quasar's light also lowered the frequency of the fluctuations.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
12 June 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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Medigap protections vary more by state than almost any other Medicare variable.—
Eve Cunningham,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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So a re-evaluation including that variable could weaken or even negate the findings.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
11 June 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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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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Beyond the fruit, the dwarf golden spice pear features clusters of white spring blooms and glossy leaves that turn a striking burgundy or bronze color in the fall.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
22 June 2026
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Many get very large, so be sure to buy a dwarf variety for foundation plantings.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
20 June 2026
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Since then, along with its fellow detectors Virgo and KAGRA, LIGO has detected gravitational waves from many mergers between pairs of black holes, pairs of ultra-dense neutron stars — and even mixed mergers between a black hole and a neutron star.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
1 June 2026
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Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light rays, typically marking the last gasp of a dying star or the cataclysmic clap of two neutron stars.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 May 2026
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Then in the future, when the binary star component enters the red giant phase, long after the outer star has become a compact white dwarf, the mass transfer could begin again in the opposite direction, with matter falling onto the surface of the white dwarf.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 June 2026
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Granted, this series has moving parts beyond its binary stars.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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