supergiant

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Recent Examples of supergiant The bright-red supergiant star Aldebaran will align with the trio. Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024 The Winter Triangle is formed by three bright stars: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky in the constellation Canis Major, Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in Orion, and Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor. Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024 The red supergiant star, called WOH G64, is about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024 In their final life stages, red supergiants like WOH G64 shed their outer layers of gas and dust in a process that can last thousands of years. Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for supergiant 
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Noun
  • Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The latter helped refine the locations of these pulsars, which are spinning neutron stars.
    John Loeffler, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Then in 1993, millisecond X-ray pulsars were discovered.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2018
Noun
  • But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Measurements of distances to quasars based on radio-interferometric techniques, for instance, are advancing, and there are prospects for using fluctuations in galaxy-surface brightness.
    Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • While these terms are often politicized, some represent demographic variables that researchers collect when tracking the ebb and flow of diseases and health conditions across populations.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Notably, investors and market analysts will likely observe how Chevron adapts to these circumstances, as the oil and gas sector remains susceptible to unpredictable market variables.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
  • For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Emperor tamarins are dwarf monkeys with whiskers that resemble a white moustache.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The dwarf variety grows to be about 5 to 7 feet, ideal for a small garden or accent in a room with limited space.
    Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • Scientists have long theorized neutron stars, ultradense core remnants left behind after massive stars explode, as origins of fast radio bursts.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • New York has no issue in that regard — second in offensive rating, third in shooting percentage and a binary star averaging more than 50 points per game.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
  • However, the existence of a white dwarf is not sufficient for a Type la supernova; the white draft must also be part of a binary star system, in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass.
    Julian Dossett, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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