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Recent Examples of supergiant
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.
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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
Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological fertilizers for our galaxy at large.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
The team brought the vast red supergiant star designated WOH G64 into focus using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI).
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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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
Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological fertilizers for our galaxy at large.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
The team brought the vast red supergiant star designated WOH G64 into focus using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI).
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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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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Type 1a supernovas are very helpful for scientists, because supernovas tend to explode with roughly the same amount of energy.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 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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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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Radio quasars are the subclass of black holes that produce the most powerful energy and jets.—
David Garofalo,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 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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Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.—
Amit Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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There are simply too many variables to consider, including the genetic influence of does on their male offspring and the role that maturity plays in antler growth.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
17 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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For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
16 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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Normally, neutrons are bound within atomic nuclei or in the matter making up extraordinarily powerful stars called neutron stars.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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