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These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.
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Julianna Bragg, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
Both the moon and Jupiter will be in the Taurus constellation during the close approach, appearing as two bright points above the red supergiant star Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation and thus referred to as the eye of the bull.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2025
After carefully analyzing the colors of each of the stars inside the Dragon Arc, the researchers found many are red supergiants, which are stars in their final stages of life.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Because the creatures looked a bit different than other supergiants, some of them were sent to Prof. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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Julianna Bragg, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
Both the moon and Jupiter will be in the Taurus constellation during the close approach, appearing as two bright points above the red supergiant star Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation and thus referred to as the eye of the bull.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2025
After carefully analyzing the colors of each of the stars inside the Dragon Arc, the researchers found many are red supergiants, which are stars in their final stages of life.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Because the creatures looked a bit different than other supergiants, some of them were sent to Prof. Peter Ng at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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And only when some stars had exhausted their fusion fuel did their collapse and explosion in supernovas create heavier elements such as heavy metals.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Radio pulsars, by comparison, produce much shorter signals — often mere seconds.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Previously, radio observatories searched the sky for new pulsars but rarely lingered long enough to pick up slower signals.—
ByDaniel Clery,
science.org,
4 Dec. 2024
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This effect produced four distinct images of the same quasar in a cross-like pattern around the central galaxy, often referred to as an Einstein Cross.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Among its findings are the measurements of nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 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 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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Anyone who begins developing a digital construction platform without considering these variables is already off to an auspicious start.—
Michael Pink,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The perpetual variable in this is Ranger Suárez, who threw 78 pitches in 4 2/3 innings Sunday at Triple A.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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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
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Emperor tamarins are dwarf monkeys with whiskers that resemble a white moustache.—
Robert Higgs,
cleveland,
1 Feb. 2023
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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
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But the intense confines of the neutron star's interior keep the neutrons stable and free-flowing.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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For true stellar heavyweights—stars with more than about eight times the sun’s mass—the end comes as a catastrophic supernova explosion that leaves behind a neutron star or black hole.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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