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Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Astronomers have captured images of what is thought to be Betelgeuse’s stellar companion – not only detecting a star orbiting a supergiant in a world-first, but solving a mystery that has puzzled astrophysicists for centuries.
—Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2025
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star close to the end of its life, as it’s rapidly burned through all of its hydrogen fuel and is now burning helium instead.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
So close, in fact, that the second star plows through the tenuous outer atmosphere of the red supergiant.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Astronomers have captured images of what is thought to be Betelgeuse’s stellar companion – not only detecting a star orbiting a supergiant in a world-first, but solving a mystery that has puzzled astrophysicists for centuries.
—Rosie McCall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2025
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star close to the end of its life, as it’s rapidly burned through all of its hydrogen fuel and is now burning helium instead.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2025
So close, in fact, that the second star plows through the tenuous outer atmosphere of the red supergiant.
—Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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By the time Chappell Roan fended off Sabrina Carpenter to snag her first-ever Grammy, both had gone supernova.—
Lori Majewski,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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One is an unusual type of supernova explosion that lasted much longer than those that typically release gamma rays, Levan said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Science fiction has, of course, been portraying exoplanets for decades, and in 1992, radio astronomers Dale Frail and Aleksander Wolszczan discovered planets orbiting a pulsar, the spinning remnant of a massive star that has gone supernova.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The X-ray data, in purple, shows the hot gas/plasma created by the central pulsar, which is clearly identifiable in both the individual and the composite image.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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Additionally, this quasar is also producing jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, a rare feature among quasars.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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In the late 1960s astronomers started to make extremely high-resolution observations of distant galaxies called quasars.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
29 Aug. 2025
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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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Change one variable slightly in the defensive pattern, and Barnes can give you an entirely different solution.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Suffice it to say, a double-big look with Valanciunas is another variable that could make the Nuggets immensely watchable.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 Sep. 2025
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The full supercluster would have more than 1 million Ascend chips, according to Huawei.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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The chips designed by Huawei serve as the basis of the company’s AI infrastructure, in which a supercluster is connected to multiple superpods.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Sep. 2025
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And all these dwarves and elves and humans go, ‘What?—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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These two dwarf galaxies orbit the Milky Way at distances of 163,000 and 200,000 light-years, respectively, moving through our galaxy's outer halo of hot gas not too dissimilar, but on a much smaller scale, from the Virgo Cluster's halo of hot gas.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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This theoretical limit concerns how much matter can be accreted to a compact body like a neutron star or black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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