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Recent Examples of supergiant
Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.
—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
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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Both were focused on better understanding the demise of massive stars, but in one, the study was aimed at the sites of past supernovas (like NGC 4900) to estimate the masses of the stars that exploded and learn more about how the powerful events interact with their surroundings.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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These elements are thought to form through a series of nuclear reactions known as the rapid neutron capture process, or r-process, which was long theorized to occur only under extreme conditions such as those in supernovas or neutron star mergers.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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The telescope will also be able to measure an unprecedented number of pulsars—spinning stellar remnants that beam electromagnetic radiation out along their magnetic poles.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
28 Nov. 2017
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There’s also that classic album cover, which Rolling Stone named as the greatest ever — a haunting image of a pulsar, lonely out in space, 978 light years away.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
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After three years, it’s studied nearly 15 million galaxies and quasars (super-bright cores at the centers of galaxies) to create the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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The scientists found Big Wheel near a quasar, which is a powerful and active supermassive black hole, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).—
Larissa G. Capella,
Space.com,
4 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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With so many options and variables, Feldman said the choice comes down to individual needs and preferences.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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The bonuses are also influenced by other variables, including in-game interviews with players and the TV ratings their games generate.—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
11 May 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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Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2022
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Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 May 2025
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Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
7 May 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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