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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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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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The algorithms can also distinguish between a potential supernova and a possible newfound asteroid, for example.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 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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According to Ashton, the story of stories results from the interplay between a constant and a variable.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
3 Mar. 2026
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But execution was never the core variable.—
Robert A. Pape,
Mercury News,
3 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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Less massive objects tend to have rounder orbits, while the most massive, brown-dwarf-like of these objects vary more in their eccentricity.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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The dwarf nana pomegranate is a small shrub that thrives in hotter climates, and will fit into your home as easily as a statuesque tree.—
Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
26 Feb. 2026
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On even longer timescales, the remnant black holes that were created, whether from stellar explosions, neutron star mergers, a collapsing gas cloud, or having grown into supermassive behemoths, will all evaporate.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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Learning about these highly energized neutrinos could lead to discoveries about where in the universe they might have been created, such as black holes and neutron star collisions — the latter of which are the most powerful classes of explosions in the cosmos.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 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 6 Mar. 2026.
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