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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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Following its expulsion, the gas, vapor and soot expanded rapidly into the surrounding atmosphere, forming complex patterns reminiscent of a blooming flower, or a nebula formed in the wake of a supernova explosion in the moment the photograph was taken.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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According to the researchers, the star’s long, steady fading is highly unusual and does not match the pattern of a normal supernova.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Feb. 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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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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One variable includes whether the clothing and backpack was purchased online or in-store.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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The time change is a new variable that's going to be a new opportunity to deepen our resolve and our devotion.—
Juwayriah Wright,
Time,
17 Feb. 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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Low-growing dwarf varieties like ‘Goldflame’ feature yellow to orange foliage that complements crepe myrtle’s dark green leaves, while ‘Magic Carpet’ can be planted to form a lush border of hot pink blooms.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
23 Feb. 2026
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For smaller yards, consider dwarf or semi-dwarf varieties, such as the disease-resistant Baldwin apple.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
22 Feb. 2026
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Learning about these highly energized neutrinos could lead to discoveries about where in the universe they might have been created, such as black holes and neutron star collisions — the latter of which are the most powerful classes of explosions in the cosmos.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 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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In most binary star systems, two stars orbit each other in elliptical paths.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
16 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 24 Feb. 2026.
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