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Recent Examples of supergiant
Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
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
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
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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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2025
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
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
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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When this final collapse happens, shockwaves ripple out to the star's outer layers, which are blown away in a supernova explosion, taking with them the vast majority of the star's mass.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny has worked with soccer supernova Lionel Messi.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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As Earth, the pulsar, and the intervening interstellar gas move relative to one another, bright and dim patches form across radio frequencies and evolve over time.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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The two planets, roughly four times the size of Earth, were discovered to be orbiting around a millisecond pulsar star named PSR B1257+12, which is 2,300 light-years away.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
9 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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The change in variable, that of international student enrollment, means the university has gone from a student body of over 9,000 students to now slightly above 6,000 students over the past two years.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
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But which variable is most impactful, the wind speed or air temperature?—
Jeff Wagner,
CBS News,
28 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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The fact that these events are responsible for the creation of some of our most precious and important elements, as well as bright cosmic phenomena like GRBs and kilonovas, means there has been a heavy bias toward studying the aftereffects of neutron star mergers.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 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 10 Feb. 2026.
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