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Recent Examples of quasar
Having the tools to shore up your scripts — a better understanding of the nature of quasars, or the wave-particle duality of matter and light — is surely no bad thing.
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Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The baby quasars in JWST’s first year of observations are more numerous than scientists had predicted based on the census of adult quasars—between 10 times and 100 times more abundant.
—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
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Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
The latter might be necessary for the likes of quasars or asteroids.
—PCMAG, 16 May 2024
Recent research revealed quasars to be the consequence of galaxies colliding.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The baby quasars in JWST’s first year of observations are more numerous than scientists had predicted based on the census of adult quasars—between 10 times and 100 times more abundant.
—WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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Rubin's wide field of view will enable it to produce alerts for transient events like supernovas or asteroids within 120 seconds, generating 20 terabytes of data each night, ultimately creating the largest astronomical movie ever.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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Related article Webb telescope captures ‘green monster’ inside a young supernova The violent outbursts of supernovas typically destroy white dwarfs, but the partial explosion, known as a rare Type lax supernova, left behind a zombie star instead.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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This conclusion was reached thanks to new data about the accelerations of nearby pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit beams of radiation that sweep out through space light the beacon of a lighthouse.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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The final confirmation might need to wait until pulsar timing arrays become sensitive enough to detect the gravitational waves coming from PG 1553+153.Jonathan Zrake, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
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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, 27 Nov. 2024
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For example, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.Trefis Team, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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The Winter Triangle is formed by three bright stars: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky in the constellation Canis Major, Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in Orion, and Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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The red supergiant star, called WOH G64, is about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
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Even after racking up more than two points per game in the first half of the season, Opta — by factoring in variables including the quality of recent performances, upcoming fixtures, historical results and their own power rankings — is predicting the Welsh club will finish on 82.23 points.Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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Your priorities change, and variables outside of your control change as well.David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
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Pulsars are rapidly spinning cosmic remnants called neutron stars that form when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own gravity.Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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This conclusion was reached thanks to new data about the accelerations of nearby pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit beams of radiation that sweep out through space light the beacon of a lighthouse.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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