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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
Sadly for the little firestarter, it is expected to be gobbled up by the red supergiant within about 10,000 years.
—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
Sadly for the little firestarter, it is expected to be gobbled up by the red supergiant within about 10,000 years.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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Instead, the collapse results in a faint supernova with significant fallback, in which the heavier elements from the star’s core, such as oxygen, are sucked back past the event horizon and trapped in the black hole beneath.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Yet, others reach our planet after being thrust into space in distant supernova explosions (the final blasts of stars that run out of fuel in their cores).—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
13 May 2026
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The source is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the pulsar PSR J1849-0001, located in the constellation Aquila.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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That means a pulsar doesn't have to be perfectly aligned with Earth to be observed via its radio emissions.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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In the case of this Einstein Cross, the gravitational lens is the galaxy J1453g in near-perfect alignment with Earth and a distant quasar, the active region at the heart of the galaxy, which is powered by a feeding supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 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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Brighton, Manchester City, Arsenal and Everton all fall into the latter category, and FPL managers should be paying close attention to this variable heading into the final stretch.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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The main booking variable is whether WWE creative uses Backlash to extend Fatu's chase or pull a swerve.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
9 May 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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Over billions of years, the galaxy probably collided with smaller dwarf galaxies, which brought in fresh gas and stars and helped build up the outer spiral arms.—
Lisa Kewley,
The Conversation,
14 May 2026
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The shrub grows 6 to 15 feet tall; there are dwarf, medium-sized, and tall varieties.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
14 May 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 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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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 19 May. 2026.
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