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Recent Examples of quasar
Perhaps the gamma rays were produced in events that gave rise to the radio outbursts of quasars.
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Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2025
Studies of quasars also have plenty more to say, notes Simcoe of MIT, who wrote with colleagues about quasars in the early universe in the 2023 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2025
Studies of quasars also have plenty more to say, notes Simcoe of MIT, who wrote with colleagues about quasars in the early universe in the 2023 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
But other sources, like quasars, supernovae and gamma ray bursts, can fire off particles at extremely high energies.
—Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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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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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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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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Young Thug has been teasing Uy Scuti — which takes its name from a red supergiant star 5,900 light years away — for about a month now.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2025
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Per Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a red supergiant star located in the constellation Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
16 Apr. 2025
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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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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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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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