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Recent Examples of supercluster
Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
In 2014, astronomers identified a new supercluster based on the relative motions of galaxies analyzed in a more sophisticated way than ever before.
—David J Eicher, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
The fluctuations reflected variations in the universe’s density, and the denser regions would later coalesce into galaxies and even larger-scale structures of superclusters of galaxies lining up like a cosmic spider web.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
Laniakea comprises four supercluster branches totaling over 500 groups and clusters with more than 100,000 individual galaxies.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
Unlike clusters and groups, superclusters are not gravitationally bound and have not yet completely collapsed.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2023
In subcortical areas, there also appears to be a supercluster of cells called splatter neurons that control innate behaviors and physiological functions.
—Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
In 2014, astronomers identified a new supercluster based on the relative motions of galaxies analyzed in a more sophisticated way than ever before.
—David J Eicher, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supercluster
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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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Measurements of distances to quasars based on radio-interferometric techniques, for instance, are advancing, and there are prospects for using fluctuations in galaxy-surface brightness.—
Marc Kamionkowski,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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Excitingly, this stellar explosion may be somewhat different from the supernovas that have occurred more recently in the local universe.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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The effect is to make type-Ia supernovas look further away than expected and so appear to be moving faster.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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Their origins are not fully understood, but they are expected to be produced by some of the most powerful events in the Universe, from collapsing stars and pulsars to the volatile environments around the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.—
Matt von Hippel,
Ars Technica,
25 Nov. 2024
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This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Dec. 2024
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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.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
14 Jan. 2025
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Red supergiant stars such as Betelgeuse and Antares are the astrobiological fertilizers for our galaxy at large.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Holidays Holidays are another variable to consider.—
Metro Creative Services,
Boston Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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Stevenson explained the 20th century French literary travel philosophy of psychogeography posited that travelling on the same path twice never leads to the same experience because other variables are ever changing.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
24 Jan. 2025
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This is how close NASA's Parker Solar Probe will fly by the sun Astronomers hypothesize that the FRBs could be originating from two supernova remnants, called neutron stars, that are merging or collapsing onto themselves, Shah said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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The most famous of these are Type Ia supernovas, in which the white dwarf is obliterated in a runaway thermonuclear explosion after stolen stellar material piles up on its surface (though there are rare events called Type Iax supernovas, in which the white dwarf lives on as a wrecked zombie star).—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
23 Dec. 2024
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Situated some 3,000 light-years away from Earth, the Blaze Star is a binary system in which a white dwarf, the core remains of a dying star, accumulates material from its neighboring red giant star.—
Alexa Robles-Gil,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Oct. 2024
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New York has no issue in that regard — second in offensive rating, third in shooting percentage and a binary star averaging more than 50 points per game.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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However, the existence of a white dwarf is not sufficient for a Type la supernova; the white draft must also be part of a binary star system, in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Supercluster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supercluster. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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