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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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Energy from this astrophysical engine sets the surrounding ejected gas aglow, souping up the supernova’s luminosity and longevity.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 Mar. 2026
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Some studies have reported finding enough iron-60 in meteorite samples to support the supernova story.—
James Dinneen,
Quanta Magazine,
2 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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Christiansen presents and writes on topics ranging from reconciling her love for art and science to her quest to learn more about the pulsar chart on the cover of Joy Division’s album Unknown Pleasures.—
Humberto Basilio,
Scientific American,
20 Jan. 2026
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This quasar existed when the universe was less than 1 billion years old, and its central engine is a supermassive black hole with around 12 billion times the mass of the sun.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 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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In that environment, brand voice becomes less a creative nice-to-have and more a performance variable.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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There’s also the Bryce Eldridge variable; if Eldridge begins the season with Triple-A Sacramento, that leaves the Giants with another roster opening and creates an easier path for Encarnacion and Matos to both be on the Opening Day roster.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
7 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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To make the garden more sustainable and less reliant on mowing, Johnson replaced part of the front lawn with dwarf mondo grass.—
Lennie Omalza,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Mar. 2026
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When his uncle Larry Tisch bought CBS, Spy called him a dwarf billionaire.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
3 Mar. 2026
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Previously, when a circular orbit had been considered for the progenitor objects beyond this merger, researchers had underestimated the mass of the black hole as being around 9 times the mass of the sun, and the neutron star having a mass of around 2 solar masses.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
11 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 14 Mar. 2026.
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