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Skywatchers on Saturday night will be treated to the gorgeous sight of a waxing crescent moon close to Antares, an unmistakably bright red supergiant star shining in the south.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 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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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Its mass is between 10 and 15 times the mass of our sun; again, typical for a red supergiant.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Aug. 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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For years, Weber claimed to continue to detect these waves, including when our Local Group’s closest and most recent supernova went off in 1987.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Nov. 2025
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This new chink in the armor of dark energy resulted from Lee and colleagues from Yonsei University discovering that Type Ia supernova may not be quite so standard after all.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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This observation seemed to support the pulsar theory, with experts theorizing that the glow would have taken a more spherical form if its source were dark matter.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 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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Found by Hubble before JWST’s launch, GNz7q looked like a mix of a galaxy and a quasar.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Oct. 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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North wind moving 5-8 mph will become light and variable after midnight.—
Lillian Metzmeier,
Louisville Courier Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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For as much planning that goes into a stadium flip of this magnitude, after all — the weather is the variable that isn’t in Tepper Sports’ hands.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Oct. 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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After a chance encounter on the road, the cheerful dwarf Zoltan Chivay (Danny Woodburn) combines his crew with Geralt’s.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Additionally, there is Zoltan (Danny Woodburn), the fan-favorite dwarf with some rather thrilling skills, and several others to round out the already expansive cast.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
30 Oct. 2025
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As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 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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Next, locate the highest point of light in the constellation — the binary star system Rasalhague — and its neighbor Kappa Ophiuchi to the lower right.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Using artificial neutral networks, his tool allows astronomers to distinguish true binary star systems from chance alignments in massive data sets like the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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