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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.
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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
The bright-red supergiant star Aldebaran will align with the trio.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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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
The bright-red supergiant star Aldebaran will align with the trio.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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That means that this dataset of nearby supernovas is several times larger than previous similar samples.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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These effects [known as magnetic braking] lead to the pulsar spinning more slowly as time goes on.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Alonso-Álvarez hopes to test his idea by seeking a signal of self-interacting dark matter in upcoming pulsar timing array data.—
Jonathan O’Callaghan,
WIRED,
1 Dec. 2024
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The luminous cores of distant, ancient galaxies, quasars expel jets of energetic matter.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
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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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Additional Bearish Factors Multiple analysts took a broader approach, citing a range of variables as being behind bitcoin’s recent depreciation.—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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But this year saw a freak variable that prompted DraftKings to adjust the lines.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
26 Feb. 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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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Roman will be looking at the motion of the universe in the visible range too, thanks to what are known as type 1a supernovas—exploding stars that are part of a binary star system.—
Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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